I've been playing with the DynaCloud plugin over the weekend and as
per normal, I don't have a standard implementation.
I'm using the tag-cloud as a way to define musical genres on my site.
The list is created dynamically, which is why dynacloud is an awesome
implementation.
But I'm having a few problems.
1) First of all, the 'sort' options sorts by most popular occurance,
but I'm trying to figure out how to sort alphabetically.
2) some of my genres have multi-word or special characters, and the
dynacloud breaks these into seperate words in the tag cloud.
For instance, R&B becomes 'r' and then somewhere else in the tag cloud
becomes 'b' or nu-jazz becomes 'nu' and 'jazz' gets added to the other
jazz entries.
I've resolved this in multi-word genres by using [code] [/code]
which strangely does not get filtered out, but [code]&[/code] does
seem to get filtered.
As far as I can tell, the regular expressions for stripping values is
below (though i could be wrong).
I've tried adding in &, but haven't been able to get it to work.
[code]
var elems = $(this).text().replace(/\W/g, "
").replace($.dynaCloud.stopwords, " ").split(" ");
var word = /^[a-z]*[A-Z]([A-Z]+|[a-z]{3,})/;
[/code]
I've posted a demo at http://zifimusic.com/tagCloud
Though the demo only shows the tag cloud, it isn't hooked up to any
further functionality yet.
