The Bootstrap Tags Manager Server Side API (code in laravel)

api.tags.php

<?php 

/**
 * This class is the extensible controller class in laravel
 * @author arifsetyawan [email protected]
 * @since 3
 */
class Api_Tags_Controller extends Admin_Controller{

  /**
   * This function is used to get all current saved tags in the database
   * the related tables defines in Tag model.
   * @return Response::json() containing json data format return
   */
  public function get_list(){
    $response = array();
    $list = "";
    $tags = Tag::get();
    if($tags){
      foreach ($tags as $tag) {
        $list[] = array('tag' => $tag->name);
      }
      $response['tags'] = $list;
      }
    return Response::json($response);
  }

	/**
   * This function is used to get request of typeAhead polling system that tags manager
   * provide to check if the typed tags is exist on the database, Though the tagsmanager use
   * pooling but it will request each character typed.
   * @return Response::json() containing json data format return
   */
  public function post_list(){
    $response = array();
    $tagname = Input::get('tagname');
    $list = "";
    $tags = Tag::where('name','like','%'.Input::get('tagname').'%')->get();
    if($tags){
      foreach ($tags as $tag) {
        $list[] = array('tag' => $tag->name);
      }
      $response['tags'] = $list;
    }
    return Response::json($response);
    }

  /**
   * This function provide the push of new tags given from tags manager. Listening to a POST based request 
   * and work with "AjaxPush:" attribute in tagsmanager
   * @return (true) ? true : none;
   */
  public function post_add(){
    $tagname = Input::get('tag'); // the standard of the input param is "tag"
    try{
      $new_tag = Tag::create(array(
        'name' => $tagname,
      ));
    } catch(Exception $e){
      // return nothing
    }
  }
    
}

?>