initial

app/Http/Controllers/ItemController.php

@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ class ItemController extends Controller
     {
         //
         $data['tags'] = Item::ofType('tag')->orderBy('title', 'asc')->pluck('title', 'id');
+        $data['tags']->prepend('Home dashboard', 0);
         $data['current_tags'] = [];
         return view('items.create', $data);
 
@@ -200,8 +201,10 @@ class ItemController extends Controller
         // Get the item
         $data['item'] = Item::find($id);
         $data['tags'] = Item::ofType('tag')->orderBy('title', 'asc')->pluck('title', 'id');
-        $data['current_tags'] = $data['item']->parents;
-
+        $data['tags']->prepend('Home dashboard', 0);
+        $data['current_tags'] = $data['item']->tags();
+        //$data['current_tags'] = $data['item']->parent;
+        //die(print_r($data['current_tags']));
         // show the edit form and pass the nerd
         return view('items.edit', $data);    
     }

app/Item.php

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use Symfony\Component\ClassLoader\ClassMapGenerator;
 use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
 use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
 use App\User;
+use App\ItemTag;
 use App\Application;
 
 class Item extends Model
@@ -70,6 +71,25 @@ class Item extends Model
 
     }
 
+
+    public function tags()
+    {
+        $id = $this->id;
+        $tags = ItemTag::select('tag_id')->where('item_id', $id)->pluck('tag_id')->toArray();
+        $tagdetails = Item::select('id', 'title', 'url', 'pinned')->whereIn('id', $tags)->get();
+        //print_r($tags);
+        if(in_array(0, $tags)) {
+            $details = new Item([
+                "id" => 0,
+                "title" => 'Home dashboard',
+                "url" => '',
+                "pinned" => 1
+            ]);
+            $tagdetails->prepend($details);
+        }
+        return $tagdetails;
+    }
+
     public function parents()
     {
         return $this->belongsToMany('App\Item', 'item_tag', 'item_id', 'tag_id');

app/ItemTag.php

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App;
+
+use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\Pivot;
+
+class ItemTag extends Pivot
+{
+    
+}