Status of JoomlaCloud

The code is now working with an advance caching mechanism (a recommended feature since TagCloud can be overkill on big site).

I also wrote:

• A mambot: joomlacloudbot.php which is activated onContent and scan scan onDemandyour articles, site.
• A module mod_joomlacloud.php displaying onDemand a site wide tag cloud or only a section, category, item

Dont ask for a release,

• It will be out when it is ready!
• I am doing this on my spare night time 😉
• The principle of tagCloud is quite easy, can be done in 20 lines of php BUT I wrote my component by keeping in mind the word extensibility!

Some words on architecture:

• Analyser classes are responsible for tokenizing text using different strategies, removing certain words based on dictionary, words length too small…etc
• Scanner classes are responsible for giving back a subset of data of your site
• Limiter classes are cutting the collection of tokenized words, for example you only want the tag cloud of the most 100 words, or only the least used words or …
• Cache classes are storing TagCloud result in Database for efficiency, but using file datastore is also possible, or no cache
• Engine classes are of 3 Types:
• SuperCloudEngine is giving some basic functionalities for creating a TagCloud
• PluginsCloudEngine can customized the way links are created in the cloud
• LazyCloudEngine is using a PluginsCloudEngine and a … cache for efficiency, creating cloud onDemand and saving them to database

and for a total of 80 files ….

Right now, what is still open:

• Testing administrator panel, I assume it is 70% correct
• Testing installer -> only boring, modifying XML by hand
• Testing module and mambots, maybe some more code to write

Everything is checked daily in CVS

For a planning point of view, I will deliver first #JoomlaCloud since it has never been released in the wild, then finishing migration of OpenComment to #Joomla 1.1 API

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