mpmedia / simpletagbundle

Symfony2 bundle to easily manage tags with any entity.

SimpleTagBundle

Symfony2 bundle to easily manage tags with any entity.

Installation

To install this bundle please follow the next steps:

First add the dependency in your composer.json file:

"require": {
    ...
    "icap-lyon1/simple-tag-bundle": "2.0.*"
},

Then install the bundle with the command:

php composer update

Enable the bundle in your application kernel:

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    $bundles = array(
        // ...
        new ICAPLyon1\Bundle\SimpleTagBundle\ICAPLyon1SimpleTagBundle(),
    );
}

Then update your database schema:

php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Then install the bundle assets:

php app/console assets:install

// if you want to create a symlink:

php app/console assets:install --symlink

Finally include the bundle configuration file in your app configuration file:

// app/config/config.yml
imports:
    // ...
    - { resource: @ICAPLyon1SimpleTagBundle/Resources/config/config.yml }

Now the Bundle is installed.

How to use

In order to add tags to an entity, the entity has to implements TaggableInterface example:

<?php
// Acme/Bundle/AcmeBundle/Entity/TaggableEntity.php

namespace Acme\Bundle\AcmeBundle\Entity;

use ICAPLyon1\Bundle\SimpleTagBundle\Entity\TaggableInterface;

class TaggableEntity implements TaggableInterface
{ 
    // Your code here
}

Then when you wish to associate an entity with a tag, simply call the icaplyon1_simpletag.manager service to create a form and process it as explained below:

// Instead of standard form creation
// $form = $this->createForm(new MyObjectType(), $myObject);

// Do this:
$form = $this->get('icaplyon1_simpletag.manager')->createForm(
    new TaggableEntityType(),
    $entity);

To save and associate the tags with your entity, call the processForm function like this:

if ($form->isValid()) {
    $myObject = $this->get('icaplyon1_simpletag.manager')->processForm($form);

    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl(...));
}

The processForm($form) method will retrieve the input tags, add new (not already associated) tags and remove associated tags that are not included in the input list

#Functions of icaplyon1_simpletag.manager

Associate tags

if you want to associate a tag with your entity:

// ...
//Associate tags with your entity
$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->addTag($tag, $entity);
// ...

if you want to associate multiple tags with your entity:

// ...
//Associate tags with your entity
$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->addTags($tags, $entity);
// ...

Dissociate tags

if you want to dissociate a tag from your entity:

$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->removeTag($tag, $entity);

if you want to dissociate multiple tags from your entity:

$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->removeTags($tags, $entity);

Remove all tags from an entity

if you want to remove all tags from your entity (DO THIS WHEN YOU ARE DELETING YOUR ENTITY IN ORDER TO AVOID KEEPING RUBBISH IN YOUR DATABASE):

$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->removeAllTags($entity);

example in method:

// ...
public function deleteAction(Request $request, $id)
{
    $form = $this->createDeleteForm($id);
    $form->bind($request);

    if ($form->isValid()) {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $entity = $em->getRepository('ICAPLyon1TestTagBundle:TaggableEntity')->find($id);

        if (!$entity) {
            throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find TaggableEntity entity.');
        }
        
        //Remove all tags for entity
        $this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->removeAllTags($entity);
        
        //Remove entity from database
        $em->remove($entity);
        $em->flush();
    }

    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('taggableentity'));
}

// ...

Get tags

In your manager (php)

To get all tags for your entity:

$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->getTags($entity);

In a twig template

To get the tags associated to an object a twig extension has been created, use it as follows:

{{ entity_tags(entity) }}

Get all stored tags

You can get all stored tags to use them for example for autocomplete

Using php

$this->get("icaplyon1_simpletag.manager")->getAllTags();

Using twig

{{ all_tags(entity) }}