New Feature: Search Cloud
Introducing the latest WebCards feature: the search cloud. OK, it ’s not a major new feature but I just want to let people know that latest WebCards development news.
If you don’t know what a search cloud is, it is a list of recent search terms with more emphasis given to terms that are searched for more frequently. More popular search terms are shown with a bigger font and less popular terms with a smaller font. They are popular on a lot of the social networking sites, such as last.fm and technorati.
The search cloud can be “dropped in” anywhere you like but I currently have it on the advanced search page.
You can take a look at the latest WebCard feature on the demonstration page. Although the demo is not particularly useable at the monet, you can still use the search feature and you can see how the search cloud changes.
Let me know what you think of it over on the forums.
My testing on the demonstration page is still producing an
Notice: Undefined index: cat in …..
Line numbers are 739,751
Seemingly it doesn’ work.. at least for me.
Comment by Inge — February 3, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
What page are you accessing to get this error? Is it related to looking at the search cloud?
Comment by corbyboy — February 3, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Your demonstration page http://www.mywebcards.net/demo and the ‘advanced search page’ as recommended.
Did I get something wrong?
Comment by Inge — February 3, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
The errors are not actually related to the search cloud. You don’t need to do an advanced search to see it. I currently have it at the bottom of the advanced search form. It is designed so that you can drop it in your WebCards installation anywhere you like.
Despite the error messages doing any search (regular or advanced) affects the search cloud so you can see the feature. Search for something and then go back to the advanced search page and you can see the change.
Incidentally, I am now doing WebCards development with PHP5 and error messages set to show every error and notice. This is why you are seeing an error when you do an advanced search.
Comment by corbyboy — February 3, 2008 @ 4:13 pm