Hi,

i'm using k2 tools module (tag cloud) to show 10 tags, but i'd like to show them alphabetically and not by popularity. However, if in k2 tools BE, there is an option to set the numbers of tags to show by popularity only. I tried to figure out what to change in helper.php file, or maybe make a tags.php overide, with no luck.

I know that showing tags by name is not a tag cloud anymore, but it's more of a "tag list" module, but can it be done with k2 tools or any other module? ( I must say, i looked in JED for a tag list module, but couldn't find one).

Thanks in advance

You can use PHP's sort function - php.net/sort - in your overrides.

i'm afraid it's not working... I addedbefore foreach statement, but again, it's not changing anything

Let me explain a bit more what i want to do here... Let's say i got tags named tag1, tag2, tag3, tag4, tag5. Tag1 and tag5 are more popular than the other tags. I set k2tools module to display only 2 modules, and it shows tag1 and tag5, but i want it to show tag1 and tag2 (first 2 tags that it'll find in the array).

Actually, what i need is a simple list of all tags, sorted alphabetically (or reverse alphabetically) that i can choose how many of them will show in frontnend

Can it be done?

@Kogos Grain

This cannot be changed. The module is fetching the tags sorted by tagged items number. You need a different module for that.

yeah, i thought so... i tried to dig a little dipper and i found a work around that seems to be working, without hacking any core files, just with a tag.php override...
so i'm posting the work around solution here, just in case somebody else needs it:

I added a huge Tag limit (X most popular) in modules settings (f.e. 30000). That means that practically the module will NOT filter any tags, unless we have more than 30000 tags (extremely rare). Now, in tags.php, i replaced:
with:
Of course, 9 is the number of tags to show, so it'll need to be changed to the number of tags to show.

Also, if somebody needs to show them in reverse alphabetically order (like me), this line needs to change to this:
Actually, what this does is take the full array of tags, without filtering it by popularity, and force slice it.

This seems to work, but any comments are welcome :)

Kudos :)
This is a robust solution.

@Kogos Grain

The only issue i see in your solution is performance related. If you have a really big number of tags this might slow down your page a bit. So just make sure that module caching is enabled.