Hey guys,

I've been trying to create a tag system with article pages and one of the things I wanted to do is introduce a search by tag feature in my project. Here's what I've got:

class ArticlePage extends Page {
    private static $many_many = array(
        "ArticleTags" => "ArticleTags"
    );
}

class ArticleTags extends DataObject{
    private static $db = array(
        "Title" => "Varchar(200)"
    );

    private static $belongs_many_many = array(
        "ArticlePages" => "ArticlePage"
    );

I have the tagfield module installed to make things easier in the backend.

How would I go about creating within a page controller a way to use ORM, HTTP Request (so SS_HTTPRequest to getParam) and work with many_many objects (ArticleTags and ArticlePage). Never been able to crack many_many things.

Cheers,
Stephen

You have a choice to use either fulltext, or the more reliable LIKE.

Then you hook a simple search form up to an action that performs something along the lines of: ArticleTag::get()->filter(<secrets within>)->ArticlePages() ... maybe. Maybe more like (if that doesn't work, it might not):

ArticlePage::get()->byIDs(ArticleTag::get()->filter(<secrets within>)->getIDList())

Hey, I never ended up having a reply go through on this post. Thanks for your suggestion anyways Pyromanik!
Ended up going with the alternative option of not using the $many_many method of tagging articles and using the static $db Text method.