plugin

        // Display Taxonomy Widget
        function widget( $args, $instance ) {

                global $post;
                extract($args);

                // Options set in the widget control panel
                $taxTitle       = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyTitle',$instance['arixTaxonomyTitle']);
                $taxType        = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyType',$instance['arixTaxonomyType']);
                $taxDisplay     = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyDisplay',$instance['arixTaxonomyDisplay']);
                $taxOrderby     = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyOrderby',$instance['arixTaxonomyOrderby']);
                $taxOrder       = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyOrder',$instance['arixTaxonomyOrder']);
                $taxCount       = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyCount',$instance['arixTaxonomyCount']);
                $taxHidden      = apply_filters('arixTaxonomyHidden',$instance['arixTaxonomyHidden']);
                $taxSubcats     = apply_filters('arixTaxonomySubcats',$instance['arixTaxonomySubcats']);

                // Default values if no option set.
                if ( $taxTitle == '' )  $taxTitle       = 'Taxonomy Widget';
                if ( $taxCount != 1 )   $taxCount       = 0;
                if ( $taxHidden != 0 || !isset($taxHidden) ) $taxHidden = 1;

                if ( $taxSubcats != true || !isset($taxSubcats) ) {
                        $taxSubcats = "false";
                        $depth          = 1;
                } else {
                        $depth = 0;
                }

                echo $taxPad;

                echo $before_widget;
                $title = $before_title.$taxTitle.$after_title;

                echo $title;

                $args = array(
                  'taxonomy'            => '' . $taxType . '',
                  'orderby'             => '' . $taxOrderby . '',
                  'order'                       => '' . $taxOrder . '',
                  'show_count'          => $taxCount,
                  'pad_counts'          => 1,
                  'hierarchical'        => $taxSubcats,
                  'hide_empty'          => $taxHidden,
                  'depth'           => $depth,
                  'id'                          => $this->get_field_id('cat'),
                  'title_li'            => '',
                );


                switch ( $taxDisplay ) {

                        case "list":

                                echo '<ul>';
                                wp_list_categories($args);
                                echo '</ul>';
                                break;

                        case "dropdown":

                                $terms = get_terms( $taxType, $args );
                                $catid  = $this->get_field_id('cat');
                                $plugin_url = plugins_url('tax_ajax.js', __FILE__ );
                                echo "<script src='". $plugin_url ."'></script>";
                                echo "<script type='text/javascript'>var taxtype = '" . $taxType . "';</script>";

                                echo '<select name="arixDropdown" class="aDropOptions" onchange="element=jQuery(this);fetch_category(element,taxtype);">';

                                echo '<option value="#">Select...</option>';

                                foreach ( $terms as $term ) {

                                        $termURL = get_term_link( $term , $termType);

                                        if ($term->parent == 0) {

                                                echo '<option value="' . $term->term_id . '">' . $term->name . ' (' . $term->count . ')</option>';

                                                $termchildren = get_term_children( $term->term_id, $taxType );

                                                foreach ( $termchildren as $children ) {

                                                        $child          = get_term_by( 'id', $children, $taxType );
                                                        $childURL       = get_term_link( $child->slug, $taxType );
                                                        $a                      = get_ancestors( $child->term_id, $taxType );

                                                        echo '<option value="' . $child->term_id . '">';
                                                        foreach ( $a as $spaces ) { echo '-'; }
                                                        echo $child->name . ' (' . $child->count . ')</option>';

                                                }

                                        }

                                }

                                echo '</select>';

                                break;

                        case "tagcloud":
                                wp_tag_cloud( array(

                                        'order'                     => '' . $taxOrder . '',
                                        'taxonomy'                                      => '' . $taxType . ''

                                ) );
                                break;
                }

                wp_reset_query();
                echo $after_widget;
        }