I'm trying to build a tag cloud derived in terms in a database as an exercise but I've found myself out of my depth in terms of linking the pieces of code together to obtain the top 200 words (there are over 20,000 so I'm looking to cut it down a little). I'd be grateful for some help in finding a solution so that I can learn where I've gone awry. 

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;

my $count;
my $tagCnt;
my $logRange;
my $fsize;
my $k;
my @tagfiledb;
my @sortkeys;
my $word;
my $occurrence;
my $tags;
my %dbtags;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:milton:localhost', 'user', 'pword');
my $sth = $dbh->prepare ('SELECT word, occurrences FROM statistic');

#load in tag file - do this from db
my $tagfile = shift;
$sth->execute;
while (($word, $occurrence) = $sth->fetchrow_array ){
    %dbtags = ($word, $count);
    }


$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect();


$tags= @tagfiledb;

my $useLogCurve = 1;
my $minFontSize = 10;
my $maxFontSize = 36;
my $fontRange = $maxFontSize - $minFontSize;

#filter the script to top 200 tags
my $maxtags = 200;
@sortkeys = sort {$tags->{$b}->{count}<=> $tags->{$a}->{$count}} keys
%{$tagfile};
@sortkeys = splice @sortkeys, 0, $maxtags;

#determine counts
my $maxTagCnt = 1;
my $minTagCnt = 10000000;

foreach $k (@sortkeys) {
    $maxTagCnt = $tags->{$k}->{count}
        if $tags->{$k}->{count} > $maxTagCnt;
    $minTagCnt = $tags->{$k}->{count}
        if $tags->{$k}->{count} > $minTagCnt;    
        }

my $minLog = log($minTagCnt);
my $maxLog = log($maxTagCnt);
my $logrange = $maxLog - $minLog;
$logrange = 1 if ($maxLog - $minLog);


sub DetermineFontSize ($)
{
 my ($tagCont) = @_;
 my $cntRatio;
 
 if ($useLogCurve) {
      $cntRatio = log($tagCnt)-$minLog/$logRange;
      } else {
      $cntRatio = ($tagCnt-$minTagCnt)/($maxTagCnt-$minTagCnt);
      }
      $fsize = $minFontSize + $fontRange * $cntRatio;
      return $fsize;
  }
  
#output tag cloud
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print<<EOT;

  <html>
  <head>
  <link href="/css/tagcloud.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  </head>
  <body>
  <div class=\"cdiv\">
  <p class=\"cbox\">
EOT

  #output the keys
foreach $k(sort @sortkeys){
   $fsize = DetermineFontSize($tags->{$k}->{$occurrence});
   my $tag = $tags->{$k}->{$word};
   printf int($fsize), $tag;
  }
  
#output end of tag file
print <<EOT
  </p>
  </div>
  </body>
  </html>
EOT
__END__

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In reply to Building a tag cloud from a database by Quicksilver

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