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New Freetag Implementation Guide

It seems like the #1 problem with releasing Freetag is that it’s confusing to understand exactly what Freetag does (or is meant to do).

I’ve taken a stab at writing up a more gentle introduction to Freetag, along with some sample code that I kinda wrote without testing (but it’s derived from production code, I promise). :)

It explains the basic concepts behind attaching Freetag to an existing schema, and implementing the a basic tag and display page on your application details pages. It also has a nice discussion of Raw Tags vs. Normalized Tags that you might not get elsewhere.

The new Freetag Implementation Guide

I’m looking forward to hearing your feedback on this doc, as I spent a few nights getting the formatting nice and pretty, and trying to keep the explanations simple. Feel free to leave your comments on this post. If you would like to see the sample app released in code format, put your voices together and i’ll see what the demand looks like. I’m just super busy lately, but it might be worthwhile if it can really help you implementers out.

Grodon out.

Freetag, Tech

  1. Svein Arve
    July 1st, 2009 at 09:55 | #1

    Hi there,

    The link to the new implementation guide is broken. Is there any place where I could take a look at a demo html page containing the needed code?

    Thanks, Svein

  2. July 1st, 2009 at 10:37 | #2

    I’ve handed off the Freetag project to Google code at http://code.google.com/p/freetag/. Please poke around there. The sample PHP client code is inside the tarfile IIRC.

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