Use PHP traits to extend Laravel Eloquent Models to allow Tags. Models can be marked as Taggable.

Laravel Taggable Trait

This package is not meant to handle javascript or html in any way. This package handles database storage and read/writes only.

There are no real limits on what characters can be used in a tag. It uses a slug transform to determine if two tags are identical ("sugar-free" and "Sugar Free" would be treated as the same tag). Tag display names are run through Str::title()

composer require rtconner/laravel-tagging

Install and then Run the migrations

The package should auto-discover when you composer update. Then publish the tagging.php and run the database migrations with these commands.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Conner\Tagging\Providers\TaggingServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

Setup your models

class Article extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
{
    use \Conner\Tagging\Taggable;
}

Quick Sample Usage

$article = Article::with('tagged')->first(); // eager load
 
foreach($article->tags as $tag) {
    echo $tag->name . ' with url slug of ' . $tag->slug;
}
 
$article->tag('Gardening'); // attach the tag
 
$article->untag('Cooking'); // remove Cooking tag
$article->untag(); // remove all tags
 
$article->retag(array('Fruit', 'Fish')); // delete current tags and save new tags
 
$article->tagNames(); // get array of related tag names
 
Article::withAnyTag(['Gardening','Cooking'])->get(); // fetch articles with any tag listed
 
Article::withAllTags(['Gardening', 'Cooking'])->get(); // only fetch articles with all the tags
 
Article::withoutTags(['Gardening', 'Cooking'])->get(); // only fetch articles without all tags listed
 
Conner\Tagging\Model\Tag::where('count', '>', 2)->get(); // return all tags used more than twice
 
Article::existingTags(); // return collection of all existing tags on any articles