PHP Classes
elePHPant
Icontem

Thesaurus tooltip: Lookup text and show popup with the text meaning

Recommend this page to a friend!
  Info   Screenshots Screenshots   View files View files (13)   DownloadInstall with Composer Download .zip   Reputation   Support forum (27)   Blog    
Last Updated Ratings Unique User Downloads Download Rankings
2008-07-07 (8 years ago) RSS 2.0 feedStarStarStarStar 72%Total: 5,090 All time: 492 This week: 1,016Down
Version License PHP version Categories
thesaurus 1.1GNU General Publi...4.1.0Text processing, AJAX
Description Author

This class can be used in conjunction with a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over.

It must be used in conjunction with a few Javascript libraries that submit the page body HTML content to the server via AJAX.

On the server, the class parses the HTML content to lookup for known text expressions stored in a dictionary file in CSV format.

The text expressions found in the dictionary are replaced by links that make a popup window appear with the expressions meaning when the user drags the mouse over the links.

The processed HTML content is returned to the browser as part of the AJAX request response.

Innovation Award
PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
November 2006
Number 6


Prize: One subscription to the PHP Magazine
The Web site advertising business became much more profitable to Web site owners, and more effective for advertisers, when Web advertising agencies invested in contextual advertising techniques, like those used by AdSense and IntelliTXT.

Instead of display almost randomly chosen ads, context advertising techniques show ads that are picked automatically by the ad servers to match the topics of the content displayed in each page.

This package implements a solution that can be used to display contextual advertising using PHP.

It can scan the text in the current page and submit it to the server via AJAX. In response to the AJAX request, contextual advertising may be displayed in a pop-up window.

Manuel Lemos
Picture of Dmitry Sheiko
Name: Dmitry Sheiko <contact>
Classes: 9 packages by
Country: Belarus Belarus
Innovation award
Innovation award
Nominee: 5x

Winner: 1x

Details
Thesaurus
===================

Version 2.0 - July 2007
---------------------------

Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Dmitry Sheiko

Requirements:
	PHP version 4.1.x+ (http://www.php.net) 
	Works with UNIX and Windows both
	

This toolkit is the simplest way to create own in-text advertising system 
using IntelliTXT (IntelliImages/IntelliMedia) technology approach. 

You need only to include on your site pages these java scripts and fill sample.csv 
with you terms and their descriptions (ads). Now when a user of your site hovers mouse 
cursor on a term from your list (sample.csv), he or she will get popup window (tooltip) 
with related description. Notice this the script asks server for term description only 
when user hovers mouse on the term.

You can use this library to create portal news popup description, interactive reference 
book and son on as well. 

Thesaurus 2.0 includes ad visiting/clicking statistics and memory cache

License Type: Freeware. Price: Free
License Type: Commercial License. Price: 39.95$ (ask me about by email sheiko@cmsdevelopment.com)
	

Files:
index.html - sample
controller.php - controller (sample 1)
db_controller.php - controller (sample 2). In this case you have ad visiting/clicking statistics
thesaurus.sql - DB SQL dump
sample.csv - Sample of thesaurus dictionary (VDB)
thesaurus.js - thesaurus library
thesaurus_default.css - design theme
thesaurus_fancy.css - design theme
thesaurus_bubble.css - design theme
bubble.gif - element of bubble design theme
yahoo.js, connection-min.js - YUI Ajax Connector Library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ )


How to install

Place all files into a folder (for instance, "/thesaurus/")
You need to put 
 
<script src = "/thesaurus/yahoo.js" ></script>
<script src = "/thesaurus/connection-min.js" ></script>
<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="thesaurus_fancy.css" />
<script src = "/thesaurus/thesaurus.js" ></script>

in the HTML. 


Insert in the HTML right before </body>:

<script>
	THConfig.Charset = 'UTF-8';	
	THConfig.CaseSensitive = 'off';	
	THConfig.CtrlURL = "/thesaurus/controller.php";
	parseContent();
</script>

Where THConfig.Charset points at what the charset your pages use
THConfig.CaseSensitive says if your terms should be case sensitive
THConfig.CtrlURL contains URL to the controller script

If you want get term's data from MySQL DB, use db_controller.php

	THConfig.CtrlURL = "/thesaurus/db_controller.php";
	
You can turn off memory cache of term descriptions with declaration:

	THConfig.MemoryCache = 'off';

But in that case you will not have ad/description viewing/cliking statistics	

You can limit area of parsing with HTML-blocks. For example you can make 
script to parse only 2 blocks:

	<div id="Block1">text text</div>
		text text
	<div id="Block2">text text</div>

Now you should point them within configuration:

<script>
	THConfig.parseElements = ['Block1', 'Block2']; 
	THConfig.CtrlURL = "/thesaurus/controller.php";
	parseContent();
</script>


Yours sincerely,
Dmitry Sheiko,
http://www.cmsdevelopment.com,
senior web developer at Red Graphic Systems (www.redgraphic.com) 
Screenshots  
  • thesaurus.gif
Videos  
  Files folder image Files  
File Role Description
Image file bubble.gif Icon background image
Plain text file connection-min.js Data YUI Ajax Connector Library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ )
Plain text file controller.php Class thesaurus controller
Plain text file db_controller.php Class Cotroller to get data from DB
HTML file index.html Data Sample
Plain text file readme.txt Doc. readme
Plain text file sample.csv Data Sample of thesaurus dictionary (VDB)
Plain text file thesaurus.js Data thesaurus library
Plain text file thesaurus.sql Output Sample dump of DB
Plain text file thesaurus_bubble.css Example Design theme
Plain text file thesaurus_default.css Example Design theme
Plain text file thesaurus_fancy.css Example Design theme
Plain text file yahoo.js Data YUI Ajax Connector Library (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ )

 Version Control Unique User Downloads Download Rankings  
 0%
Total:5,090
This week:0
All time:492
This week:1,016Down
User Ratings User Comments (1)
 All time
Utility:87%StarStarStarStarStar
Consistency:79%StarStarStarStar
Documentation:73%StarStarStarStar
Examples:81%StarStarStarStarStar
Tests:-
Videos:55%StarStarStar
Overall:72%StarStarStarStar
Rank:196
 
bad support
5 years ago (Alexey Belov)
30%StarStar