How to implement Tagging to Laravel Models with Tagify

Introduction

Adding tags to your Laravel app can improve overall search-ability, so If your Laravel app requires to add or associate tags to any of the models, Laravel Tagify will make your life easier.

Installation

To install the package, simply install it from composer.

composer require usamamuneerchaudhary/laravel-tagify

Once the package is installed, run the migrations which will create two tables, tags and taggables.

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php artisan migrate

and finally, don't forget to add the TagifyServiceProvider to app.php. 

Usamamuneerchaudhary\LaravelTagify\TagifyServiceProvider::class,

Usage

For instance, you're running a blog on Laravel, and your posts need some tags with it. In your Post model, add the Taggable trait likeso,

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namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Usamamuneerchaudhary\LaravelTagify\Taggable;
class Post extends Model
{
    use Taggable;
}

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Once thats set, lets' play around with it a bit.

Add a Tag

$tags =['Laravel','PHP'];
$post->tag($tags);

Untag a Tag

$post->untag(['Laravel]);

Untag all Tags

$post->untag();

Retag a tag to Post Model

$post->retag(['Eloquent','mysql']);

Get all Tags

$post->tags;

Scopes to get associated tags

App\Model\Post::withAllTags(['laravel','php']); //will return if has all tags
App\Model\Post::withAnyTags(['laravel','php','python']); //will only return the ones associated, and ignore the 
ones which are not.
App\Model\Post::hasTags(['laravel','php']); //check if a model has tags

Github Repository: Laravel Tagify Package