Extension:Nimbus

What can this extension do?
The Nimbus extension returns a (user defined) number of Category links, and displays them in font sizes relative to the number of links in those Categories. The returned list can be optionally animated when "Flash" is available to the browser. This extension serves as a direct replacement for the "WikiCategoryCloud" extension. All default settings can be overwritten by Mediawiki page. Based on "WikiCategoryTagCloud" by Daniel Friesen and "WP-Cumulus Port to mediawiki" by Luc

Note: Fonts displayed are flash images. Latin characters are pre-loaded and should immediately work. Instructions for loading additional characters or sets are on Roy Tanck's site.

Usage
All variables have "reasonable" defaults, which can be overwritten on the MediaWiki page.

Typical MediaWiki implementation:

|- | class="nimbus" style="text-align:center" | &lt;tagcloud style="background: transparent; padding:0; border:0;"> flash=1 increase_factor=150 exclude=CategoryName, Delete, Help &lt;/tagcloud> |-

Options
The full set of options which can be passed from the Wiki Page are:

Installation
To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/Nimbus/Nimbus.php");

You must have in the Nimbus directory
 * swfobject.js
 * tagcloud.swf
 * Nimbus.php (see below)

Demonstration
A Demonstration is available at wiki.gis.com