Simple Plings In - Tag Lookup

From Plings Info

What we're after is a way of tagging activities with relevant tags.

e.g. Activity = Football Skills, Tags = football, goalkeeping

We have a SOAP interface that can serve us existing tags at: http://dev.substance.coop/services/lookups.php

The only parameter here is 'activities' - so by requesting a search term e.g. 'foot', all tags containing foot are returned.

If we can combine this with autocomplete then people entering tags can

1. do less typing
2. use existing tags (preventing a build up of similar tags, and creating a more robust taxonomy)

Progress so far

We have a lookup via URL working in the rails 'dev' packaged.

http://127.0.0.1:3000/pling/tagsoap?tag=all - will return 132 items (28/10/08)

From the plings_controller.rb

#this makes a request to the SOAP service from the URL:\\
#http://127.0.0.1:3000/pling/tagsoap?tag=<something>\\
#e.g. football, and returns all the tags from the service under 'football'\\
#taken from: dennis baldwin’s thoughts - http://www.db75.com/new_blog/?p=201\\
#all I've changed is the url and the line @activityList = driver, where 'activities' is the\\
#lookup parameter at the SOAP service..\\
require 'soap/wsdlDriver'\\
def tagsoap\\
soap_client = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("http://dev.substance.coop/services/lookups.php?wsdl")\\
driver = soap_client.createDriver\\
@activityList = driver.activities(params[:tag])\\
end