Tag names with spaces in them
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cygnl7
Joined: 2009-07-09
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Posted: Thu, 2009-07-09 01:35
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Gallery3 supports tags with spaces in their names if they came from the image metadata (e.g., IPTC keywords). However, if you add tags manually you cannot include spaces in the name since space is considered a delimiter. This is different from gallery2, and is different from how other sites that allow tags work (although I must confess this last point I only offer from hearsay; I don't have much experience myself). I believe spaces should be allowed in tag names when entering them manually, even if only to make it work the same way as the IPTC keyword -> tag import. But I also happen to believe this is an important feature in and of itself. Unfortunately it seems there are no plans to support this as is evidenced by the issue at http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gallery/ticket/523 . Am I the only one who wants to have tag names with spaces in them? Go ahead, I can take it. The cheese stands alone... ? |
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You are not alone in wanting multi word tags!
See if adding quotes (") like:
not tested recently but it might work in Beta2:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gallery/ticket/193
Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team
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Thanks for your reply.
I cloned from git yesterday and tried it but it still splits on ',', ' ', and ';'. So I end up with two tags:
- "tag1
- tag2"
For now I just took the splitting on ' ' out of my instance and use ',' or ';' to separate.
I really don't care if it's that way or if it's the double-quote way (although the double-quote way seems like more work both on the code side (but not much) and on the user's side to me), as long as I can do multi-word tags.
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This debate has gone on for a few years now:
http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/tag_formats_cant_we_all_just_get_along.php
From what I can see reading that is the consensus should be quotes around phrases or multi word tags.
Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team
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That would be great. The only problem is the issue I logged was closed. Hopefully it gets picked up somewhere. Maybe there's already another that covers it.
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This ticket: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gallery/ticket/193
is closed as well, but is says a milestone of Beta2 so lets hope.
Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team
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Beta2 still treats tags with a space as two separate tags even if enclosed in quotes. It should treat quoted strings as one tag.
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kylehase,
please upgrade as the behavior has chanaged since beta2:
upgrade to the latest code
Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team
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Floridave,
Just checked out the latest code.
foreach (split(",", $form->add_tag->inputs["name"]->value) as $tag_name)Looks like tags can only be delimited by comma now. I still would rather have space delimiting with the option to enclose multiple word tags with quotes.
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yes you are right.
It was a fight to get multi word tags. Just a big a fight to have multiword tags imported form G2 to be multi word tags in G3.
Please feel free to file a feature request but unless you or you find somebody to code the behavior, it will just get moved to 'field of dreams'. I would like to behavior as well, but....I am just lucky/happy that multi work tags work.
I think the issue is that the G2->G3 tags import had comma and semi colon separators with spaces for multi work tags. Having this import properly and having a UI to add new tags was very complex and there is far bigger issues to resolve at this time.
Feel free to fork G3 in GIT and create/copy the tags module with the G2 import module to behave the way you would like.
Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team