oc-auto-tag

April 2, 2009

OCAutoTag Component is a useful extension to auto generate tags from Calais service. This extension is based on Open Calais Tags PHP class written by Dan Grossman, see http://www.dangrossman.info/open-calais-tags/.

Currently only English and French are supported by Calais.

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Documentation ¶

Requirements ¶

Yii 1.03 or above (only tested on Yii 1.03)

Installation ¶

Extract the release file under protected/extensions

Usage ¶

See an eample used in Blog Demo:

In config file main.php, add to component:

'components'=>array(
          ......
          'OCAutoTag'=>array(
              'class'=>'application.extensions.OCAutoTag.EOCAutoTagComponent',
              'oc_api_key'=>'calais_api_key', // required, add your Calais API key here
              'tag_delimiter'=>',', // Optional, set tag delimiter here
          ),
          ......
        )

Modify actionCreate() action in PostController.php file:

public function actionCreate()
        {
            $post=new Post;
            if(isset($_POST['Post']))
            {
              $oc = Yii::app()->OCAutoTag; // Get an OCAutoTag instance
              $auto_tag = $oc->getTags($_POST['Post']['content']); // Get tag in string by sending in post content
              if(!empty($auto_tag))
                $_POST['Post']['tags'] = !empty($_POST['Post']['tags'])?$_POST['Post']['tags'].$oc->getTagDelimiter().$auto_tag:$auto_tag; // Append auto generated tags to user input tags if $auto_tag is not empty
 
                $post->attributes=$_POST['Post'];
                if(isset($_POST['previewPost'])){
                    $post->validate();
                }
                else if(isset($_POST['submitPost']) && $post->save())
                    $this->redirect(array('show','id'=>$post->id));
            }
            $this->render('create',array('post'=>$post));
        }

Change Log ¶

April 2, 2009 ¶

V0.1 Initial release.