In this tutorial i am going to show you how to create a basic word / tag cloud using php. I am going to create a class based cloud, this is because it will be more convenient for people to adapt it on there own websites, if you don't know much about class based programming then click here to take a look at the class tutorial.

They pull the information from their "words array" (where words can be dynamically added to it) and use a percentage rating to base the CSS size for the data's span tag. The entire class listing is provided in one big chunk to make copy and paste easy.

If you frequent forums, you'd probably remember images in people's signatures that would display information about your computer. Such mysticism! This tutorial will teach you that, and more!

They show you step by step how to use the GD extension in PHP to update a pre-existing image (a PNG in this case) with the viewer's IP address dynamically. It's just a small bit of what you can do with GD, but it's a good introduction to what it looks like...]]> Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:08:48 -0600