ngtagcloud

Angular tag cloud with click handler

Create simple tag clouds for your angular apps.

Installation

bower

	$ bower install ngtagcloud --save

Include the following in your project html;

	<link rel="stylesheet" href="bower_components/ngtagcloud/ngtagcloud.css">
    <script type="text/javascript" src='bower_components/ngtagcloud/ngtagcloud.min.js'></script>

replace bower_components with the path to your bower library if it isn't bower_components, e.g. replace with lib for ionic projects.

npm

	npm install --save ngtagcloud

Include the following in your project html;

	<link rel="stylesheet" href="node_modules/ngtagcloud/ngtagcloud.css">
    <script type="text/javascript" src='node_modules/ngtagcloud/ngtagcloud.min.js'></script>

Include in your Angular app with;

	angular.modules('myApp',['ngTagCloud',....])

Include an ng-tag-cloud element in your project html;

	<ng-tag-cloud  tag-data="cloud_data" ></ng-tag-cloud> 

For each tag in the cloud a span element is appended to the tag cloud container.

The tag data is expected to be an array of objects with text and weight properties

	{text: <string>, weight: <number>}

	e.g.
	
	$scope.cloud_data = [
          {text: "Lorem", weight: 15},  
          {text: "Ipsum", weight: 9},
          {text: "Dolor", weight: 6},
          {text: "Sit", weight: 7},
          {text: "Amet", weight: 5} 
      ];

Each tag in the cloud can have an associated link e.g

	$scope.cloud_data = [
          {text: "Lorem", weight: 15, link: '/api/tags/search/Lorem'},  
          {text: "Ipsum", weight: 9, link: '/api/tags/search/Ipsum'},
          {text: "Dolor", weight: 6, link: 'http://google.com?q=Dolor'},
          {text: "Sit", weight: 7},
          {text: "Amet", weight: 5} 
      ];
      

Common URL

You can set a common link URL for all tags with the tag-link attribute

	<ng-tag-cloud  tag-data="cloud_data" tag-link='http://google.com?q=__tag__'></ng-tag-cloud>  

The __tag__ in the link is replaced with the tag text for each tag in the cloud. Specific tag links take preference over a common tag link if both are given.

Tag click handler

You can register a click handler so that a function is called in the scope of the parent controller when the tag is clicked. The click handler is called with the tag text E.g.

index.html

	<ng-tag-cloud  tag-data="cloud_data" tag-click="tag_click_handler(text)"></ng-tag-cloud> 

controller.js

$scope.tag_click_handler = function(text) {
	console.log('a tag in the cloud was clicked', text);
		
	// a useful thing to do here might be to search with the tag e.g
	$state.go('tag.search',{tag: text});
}

and with the ui-router setup

$stateProvider.state('tag.search', {
    url: '/tags/search',
    controller: 'SearchCtrl',
    templateUrl: 'search_results.html',
    params: {
        tag: null
    } 
  
})

You can call the method anything you like but the parameter name in the attribute must remain as text. E.g.

index.html

	<ng-tag-cloud  tag-data="cloud_data" tag-click="some_other_function_name(text)"></ng-tag-cloud> 

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Damian Hamill

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.