Preface

Introduction

A Platform 9 extension to manage tags across your application.

Have a read through the Installation Guide.

Features

• Can create, update and remove tags.
• Can register entity namespaces.
• Can associate a tag to a namespace.

Examples

The $tags variable used below is a reference to the TagRepository.

$tags = app('platform.tags');

Retrieve all tags

$allTags = $tags->findAll();

Dynamically create a new tag

$tags->create([
    'name' => 'Foo',
    'slug' => 'foo',
]);

Setup

Installation

The best and easiest way to install the Tags extension is with Composer.

Preparation

Open your composer.json file and add the following to the require array:

"platform/tags": "^8.0"

Add the following lines after the require array on your composer.json file:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "composer",
        "url": "https://packages.cartalyst.com"
    }
]

Note: Make sure that after the required changes your composer.json file is valid by running composer validate.

Install the dependencies

Run Composer to install or update the new requirement.

php composer install

or

php composer update

Now you are able to install the extension through Platform's admin.

Usage

In this section we'll show how you can manage your application's tags.

Repository

IoC Binding

The tag repository is bound to platform.tags and can be resolved out of the IoC Container using that offset.

$tags = app('platform.tags');

Methods

The repository contains several methods that are used throughout the extension, most common methods are listed below.

For an exhaustive list of available methods, checkout the TagRepositoryInterface

• findAll();

Returns a collection of all tags.

• find($id);

Returns a tag object based on the given id.

• findBySlug($slug);

Returns a tag object based on the given slug.

• findByName($name);

Returns a tag object based on the given name.

• create(array $data);

Creates a new tag.

• update($id, array $data);

Updates an existing tag.

• delete($id);

Deletes a tag.

• set($entity, $tags)

Sets the given tags on the given entity.