tagRepository = $tagRepository; } /** * Assign some tags to an entry. * * @param array|string $tags An array of tag or a string coma separated of tag * @param array $entitiesReady Entities from the EntityManager which are persisted but not yet flushed * It is mostly to fix duplicate tag on import @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/7879164/569101 * * @return Tag[] */ public function assignTagsToEntry(Entry $entry, $tags, array $entitiesReady = []) { $tagsEntities = []; if (!\is_array($tags)) { $tags = explode(',', $tags); } // keeps only Tag entity from the "not yet flushed entities" $tagsNotYetFlushed = []; foreach ($entitiesReady as $entity) { if ($entity instanceof Tag) { $tagsNotYetFlushed[$entity->getLabel()] = $entity; } } foreach ($tags as $label) { $label = trim(mb_convert_case($label, \MB_CASE_LOWER)); // avoid empty tag if ('' === $label) { continue; } if (isset($tagsNotYetFlushed[$label])) { $tagEntity = $tagsNotYetFlushed[$label]; } else { $tagEntity = $this->tagRepository->findOneByLabel($label); if (null === $tagEntity) { $tagEntity = new Tag(); $tagEntity->setLabel($label); } } // only add the tag on the entry if the relation doesn't exist if (false === $entry->getTags()->contains($tagEntity)) { $entry->addTag($tagEntity); $tagsEntities[] = $tagEntity; } } return $tagsEntities; } }