<?php 
class TaggingComponent extends Object
{
function tagParse($tagdump) {
	// first we need to split the tags up and strip whitespace at the beginning and end
	// not ALL whitespace as we're allowing multiple word tags
	$tempTagArray = preg_split('/,/',$tagdump);
	$tagArray = array();
	foreach ($tempTagArray as $t) {
		$t = trim($t);
		if (strlen($t)>0) {
			$tagArray[] = $t;
		}
	}
	$Tag = new Tag; // create a new Tag object
	$tagInfo = array(); // create a new array to store tag id and name combo's from db
	foreach ($tagArray as $t) {
		if ($res = $Tag->findByName($t)) {
			// tag exists already, add it to our array
			$tagInfo[] = $res['Tag']['id'];
		} else {
			// tag doesn't exist, lets add it
			$Tag->save(array('id'=>'','name'=>$t));
			// now we can add this to our array
			$tagInfo[] = sprintf($Tag->getLastInsertID());
		}
		unset($res);
	}
	return $tagInfo;
}

}
?>