Searching with multiple tags - new feature

For some time now customers have been requesting a certain new feature in the Tags component - The ability to link to pages that contain articles tagged with two or more tags by AND or OR. Well we listened and now we are happy to announce a new release of the Tags component with new features !!!

This new functionality allows you to search for articles that are tagged with the tag names suppled within a URL.

You can search for articles by two methods the and method and the or method.

The or method allows you to search for articles tagged with the tags x or y (x and y being tag names). The URL that is required for this search method to work will look something like this:

www.mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_tag&tag=x|y

As you can see the two tag names are separated with a bar(|), make sure this bar is included in the URL else the results of the search will not be as expected.

The and search allows you to search for articles tagged with the tags x and y (x and y being tag names). The URL for the and search is the same as the or search but with one change the tag names are separated with a semicolon(;) thus the URL will look something like this.

www.mywebsite.com/index.php?option=com_tag&tag=x;y

Again make sure this semicolon is included in the URL else the results of the search will not be as expected.

Please note that it isn’t possible to mix the two searching methods together e.g. x;y|z as this will result in a negative result

(Thanks to Chris for doing this so quickly and Thanks to Conor for the sponsorship)