Tag API before 3.1
Moodle 2.0
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Tag API overview
The Tag API allows you to assign labels to information in Moodle. This makes finding this information easier and also facilitates the grouping of similar information. The Tag API allows you to create, modify, delete and search tags in the Moodle system. The main of tag related functions can be found in the tag/lib.php and tab/locallib.php. For a through overview of all of the functions available for working with Tags please see SYSTEM X, however the following examples should give you a general understanding of how to get started with tags.
Tag API Usage
Example
require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/tag/locallib.php');
$id = mt_rand(1000000000, 9999999999); // Generating a key that is unlikely to be taken
tag_set('foo_user', $id, array()); // Delete all foo_user->$id tags by passing an empty array
tag_get_tags('foo_user', $id); // returns an empty array()
tag_set_add('foo_user', $id, 'chess'); // Add chess to the list of tags for foo_user->$id
tag_get_tags('foo_user', $id); /*
returns: Array
(
[14] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 14
[tagtype] => default
[name] => chess
[rawname] => chess
[flag] => 0
[ordering] => 0
)
)
- /
tag_set_delete('foo_user', $id, 'chess'); //Delete the chess tag for foo_user->$id
tag_get_tags('foo_user', $id); // returns an empty array()
br("");
tag_set('foo_user', $id, array('table tennis', 'foosball', 'programming')); //Add some more tags for foo_user->$id
$tags = tag_get_tags('foo_user', $id); /*
$tags = Array
(
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 15
[tagtype] => official
[name] => table tennis
[rawname] => table tennis
[flag] => 0
[ordering] => 0
)
[16] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 16
[tagtype] => default
[name] => foosball
[rawname] => foosball
[flag] => 0
[ordering] => 1
)
[17] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 17
[tagtype] => default
[name] => programming
[rawname] => programming
[flag] => 0
[ordering] => 2
)
)
- /
$firstTagKey = key($tags); // Grab the first key (which happens to be the key for table tennis).
tag_type_set($firstTagKey, 'official'); // Make table tennis an official tag
// output only official foo_user->$id tags
tag_get_tags('foo_user', $id, 'official'); /*
Returns: Array
(
[15] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 15
[tagtype] => official
[name] => table tennis
[rawname] => table tennis
[flag] => 0
[ordering] => 0
)
)
- /
// Set a description for the table tennis tag.
tag_description_set($firstTagKey, '
Another name for wiff-waff"
', FORMAT_HTML);
// Grab the details of the table tennis field
tag_get('name', 'table tennis', '*'); /*
Returns: stdClass Object
(
[id] => 15
[userid] => 2
[name] => table tennis
[rawname] => table tennis
[tagtype] => official
[description] =>
Another name for wiff-waff"
[descriptionformat] => 1
[flag] => 0
[timemodified] => 1327343334
)
- /
// Output a tag cloud for all tags in the system.
tag_print_cloud();
Tag API database tables
Tag
This table holds all of the tags which are currently available in the system.
Field | Type | Default | Info |
---|---|---|---|
id | int(10) | auto-incrementing | The unique ID for this Tag. |
userid | int(10) | The user that the Tag belongs to | |
name | varchar(255) | null | The name of the tag |
rawname | varchar(255) | A version of the name which has been normalised with functions such as clean_param and strtolower | |
tagtype | varchar(255) NULL | null | Specifies the type of the tag. Currently there are only two types of tags, official and default. Official is used for tags that have been accepted by administrators. |
description | text NULL | A description of the tag. It's format is specified by the descriptionformat field of this table | |
descriptionformat | tinyint(2) unsigned | 0 | Specifies the MOODLE TEXT format of the description (see: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Text_formats_2.0#Database_structure) |
flag | smallint(4) | 0 | Used to identify tags that have been marked as inappropriate |
timemodified | bigint(10) | The time that the tag was last updated. |
Tag_Instance
This table is use to record the instances of each tag's use. It has a many to one relationship with the tag table shown above.
Field | Type | Default | Info |
---|---|---|---|
id | int(10) | auto-incrementing | The unique ID for this tag instance |
tagid | int(10) | The foreign key which relates to the primary tagid key in the tag table | |
itemtype | varchar(255) | null | The category that the tag belongs to (eg. user, course) |
itemid | int(10) | The ID of the particular item you are linking to. So for an itemtype of user you would use the user's ID for the itemid. | |
tiuserid | int(10) | 0 | The userid of the user who created the tag instance. |
ordering | int(10) | See http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31150 | |
timemodified | int(10) | 0 | The time that the tag instace was last updated. |