Question | TWIG: Joomla Finder and Tags

[thexmanxyz]

@yellowwebmonkey @mahagr @newkind

Is there a way to filter Joomla articles with the joomla.finder() by tag or alternatively return the tags with the article object? By default the objects returned do not contain the tags as array / attribute, checked with dump(...). However there is a field ["show_tags"]=> string(0) "". I tried messing with that field as an option parameter but that didn't work. Some hint would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

I added a screenshot to show what field within a Joomla article I mean / target.

[mahagr]

Unfortunately, tags are not supported by the finder.

[thexmanxyz]

@mahagr @yellowwebmonkey Are there any plans to implement this feature within the finder or is there a possibility to see this coming at some point in the future? Because there is a demand to fetch articles by their tags.

It would be great to at least have the option to fetch them by a method like:
finder.tags(tags, match_all = true).

.tags(['tag-a','tab-b','tag-c'], false) ... it would be useful to have a second parameter which defines whether all tags (true) should be matched or any of the passed tags (false).

[mahagr]

There is a feature request for this: #1631

I would love to implement this soon, but for me getting Joomla 4 support and menu fixes done are more important at this moment.

If someone likes to look into this (mostly if there's a way to use Joomla tags by some API), I would love to hear about it.

[thexmanxyz]

@mahagr I completely missed the #1631 feature request. In the meantime we have a working PR for this FR so I will close this issue because it is not needed any more and everything discussed / outlined here should be working with #2561 (a very solid approach that just waits to be merged into develop :P).