Tagging

Hi Mickey,

This is possible to do in CMS Builder, and doesn't require any special modifications to the software itself. Instead, you would need to do a little bit of coding work on your viewer pages. Basically the idea would be to use CMS Builder's search engine to search the "tags" field in your records for the clicked word. You would set this up by coding some special links in your viewer code that passed the tag word to a search query.

If you'd like some more specific instructions on setting this up, let us know. [:)]

Hi Jake,
Thanks for that, I hadn't expected a reply on the weekend! I'd appreciate some instructions on setting this up if possible.

Thanks,
Mickey

Hi Mickey,

I just wanted to let you know that I'm working on a step by step guide for this - I'll post back later today with my results. [:)]

Hi Mickey,

To set this up, you'll want to create a textfield for the tags to be entered into - I called mine "Tags". You may also want to specify some instructions for this field that each tag should be separated by a comma.

Now create a normal detail viewer page, or open up your existing one. The only thing we're going to do here is add this code in:

<?php $tagList = split(',', $record['tags']); ?>
<?php foreach ($tagList as $tagLink): ?>
<a href="/path/to/your/listViewer.php?tags_keyword=<?php echo urlencode(trim($tagLink)); ?>"><?php echo $tagLink ?></a>
<?php endforeach ?>

That code will split up your tags each time it encounters a comma, and will also remove any spaces entered before or after the comma, if present. It will also URL encode the text should some weird characters make it in there. Finally it will generate a search link for each one of the entered tags.

The only thing you'll need to change in that code is this chunk of text:

/path/to/your/listViewer.php

This should point to the list viewer page for this section. If you'd like to limit the results to ten on this page, just enter "10" into the 'limit' option at the start of your list viewer page:

'limit' => '10',

That should be it! Let me know how this works out for you. [:)]