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How to list/display tags (TagField) in template?


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vwd

Community Member, 166 Posts

19 April 2011 at 9:49am

Hi,

I am using the TagField module to incorporate tags into data an SS site.

Outcome I'd like: iterate through tags, listing them in my template...

<div class="items'>
    <h2>Item 1</h2>
    <ul class="tags">
        <li>tag 1 item 1</li>
        <li>tag 2 item 2</li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="items'>
    <h2>Item 2</h2>
    <ul class="tags">
        <li>tag 1 item 2</li>
        <li>tag 2 item 2</li>
    </ul>
</div>

The data model....

class MyItem extends DataObject
{
    static $db = array (
        'ItemName' => 'Text',
        'Tags' => 'Text'
        );

        static $has_one = array (
            'MyItemPage' => 'MyItemPage'
        );

    
	public function getCMSFields_forPopup()
	{
            $tf = new TagField('Tags', null, null, 'MyItem');
            $tf->setSeparator(',');
            return new FieldSet(
                        new TextField('ItemName'),
                        $tf
            );
        }
}

The template that I envisaged (not sure if this is the best approach)...

<% control MyItems %>
    <div class="items>
        <h2>$ItemName </h2>
        <ul class="tags">
            <% control TagList %>
                <li>$Value</li>
            <% end_control %>
        </ul>
<% end_control %>

I realise that the 'model' (MyItem) basically has the tag list stored as a single string/text entry. And TagField is the field type is used to store a list of created tags in the DB and assist with auto-suggestion of tags etc.

What is the smartest/proper way of implementing the functionality above (iterating through individual tags)? It didn't feel right to re-implement the string tokenizing logic (from TagField.php) in the page controller. So how would I go about achieving this functionality please?

Thank you very much.
VWD.