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TagProc

A Tag Processing PHP application.

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For my own convenience I developed an PHP application, which I named TagProc. This application does the following:

  * Scan weblogs and podcasts I subscribed to (registered in the database) (RSS or ATOM)
  * Store new entries of the weblogs and podcasts in the database
  * Split the titles of the entries up in seperate words (tags), skipping irrelevant tags (also stored in the database).
  * The application counts the frequency of the occurrence of each of the tags, giving it a frequency-value.
  * Using the frequency-value:
  ** a TagCloud of the most frequent occurring tags can be shown.
  ** a sorted list of entries can be displayed (the seperate tags of the title of the entry, give the entry as a whole a value).

The application also has a (upto now) limited administration interface

  * create database tables
  * add (subscribe) to a new weblog or podcast
  * disable/enable of delete a subscribed weblog or podcast

It has the following todo's:

  * build in an authorisation mechanism
  * build a administration screen for irrelevant tags

Demonstration

• TagCloud: http://www.johnvandervuurst.nl/tagproc.php?operation=tagcloud [1]
• List  : http://www.johnvandervuurst.nl/tagproc.php?operation=list [2]
• TagList : http://www.johnvandervuurst.nl/tagproc.php?operation=list_tags [3]
• Subscriptions: http://www.johnvandervuurst.nl/tagproc.php?operation=list_podcast [4]

Download (beta-version)

Requirements: *Webserver (own / ISP or hosting) with XAMPP installed (Apache, MySQL, PHP and PERL)

Dependencies: *WordCloud php class (for actually displaying the tagcloud), written by Derek Harvey.

download here... tagproc.tar.gz

Download contains:

• tagproc.php --> the application itself
• dbcfg.php --> file with database configuration (see fileheader itself for details)
• classes/wordcloud.class.php --> the wordcloud class of Derek Harvey, included under GPL license.

Installation:

• unpack tarfile (tar -xvzf tagproc.tar.gz) and place it in the root of your webserver.
• subscribe to weblogs and podcasts using operation add_podcast
• make sure to regulary (using cron, at of a scheduled task in windows) to call the refresh and refresh_tagcloud operations (for scanning weblogs and refreshing tag statistics)
• add a call to the tagcloud operation in your html page. For instance in an IFRAME, or using an include or directly from php

Good luck...!

John van der Vuurst