Code example for creating tag cloud in php

This article introduces a piece of code that uses PHP to create a tag cloud, and creates a tag cloud effect through a custom PHP function. Friends in need can refer to it.

An example of the php tag cloud creation code is as follows:

<?php
/**
* php 标签云效果
* edit: bbs.it-home.org
*/

function getCloud( $data = array(), $minFontSize = 12, $maxFontSize = 30 )
{
$minimumCount = min( array_values( $data ) );
$maximumCount = max( array_values( $data ) );
$spread = $maximumCount - $minimumCount;
$cloudHTML = '';
$cloudTags = array(); 

$spread == 0 && $spread = 1; 

foreach( $data as $tag => $count )
{
$size = $minFontSize + ( $count - $minimumCount )
* ( $maxFontSize - $minFontSize ) / $spread;
$cloudTags[] = ''
. htmlspecialchars( stripslashes( $tag ) ) . '';
} 

return join( "\n", $cloudTags ) . "\n";
}
/*** Sample usage ***/
$arr = Array('Actionscript' => 35, 'Adobe' => 22, 'Array' => 44, 'Background' => 43,
'Blur' => 18, 'Canvas' => 33, 'Class' => 15, 'Color Palette' => 11, 'Crop' => 42,
'Delimiter' => 13, 'Depth' => 34, 'Design' => 8, 'Encode' => 12, 'Encryption' => 30,
'Extract' => 28, 'Filters' => 42);
echo getCloud($arr, 12, 36); 

The core code of a php tag cloud that I have collected:

<?php
$artist = array("the roots","michael jackson","billy idol","more","and more","and_YET_MORE");
$count = array(5,3,9,1,1,3);
$highest = max($count);
for ((int) $x = 0; x < count($artist); $x++)
{
    $normalized = $count[$x] / $highest;
    $heading = ceil($normalized * 6); // 6 heading types
    echo "<h".$heading.">".$artist[$x]."</h".$heading.">";
}
?>