Using types

In your application you might want to have multiple collections of tags. For example: you might want one group of tags for your News model and another group of tags for your BlogPost model.

To create separate collections of tags you can use tag types.

//creating a tag with a certain type
$tagWithType = Tag::findOrCreate('headline', 'newsTag');

In addition to strings, all methods mentioned in the basic usage section can take instances of Tag as well.

$newsItem->attachTag($tagWithType);
$newsItem->detachTag($tagWithType);
// ...

In addition to syncTags, an additional method called syncTagsWithType is available for syncing tags on a per-type basis:

$newsItem->syncTagsWithType(['tagA', 'tagB'], 'firstType');
$newsItem->syncTagsWithType(['tagC', 'tagD'], 'secondType');

The provided method scopes, withAnyTags and withAllTags, can take instances of Spatie\Tags\Tag too:

$tag = Tag::create(['name' => 'gossip']);
$tag2 = Tag::create(['name' => 'headline']);

NewsItem::withAnyTags([$tag, $tag2])->get();

To get all tags with a specific type use the getWithType method.

$tagA = Tag::findOrCreate('tagA', 'firstType');
$tagB = Tag::findOrCreate('tagB', 'firstType');
$tagC = Tag::findOrCreate('tagC', 'secondType');
$tagD = Tag::findOrCreate('tagD', 'secondType');

Tag::getWithType('firstType'); // returns a collection with $tagA and $tagB

//there's also a scoped version
Tag::withType('firstType')->get(); // returns the same result

From your model object, you can also get all tags with a specific type via the tagsWithType method:

$newsItem->tagsWithType('firstType'); // returns a collection