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I'm displaying a contacts entity tags in my app, allowing the user to select/deselect tags, and attempting to update the set of entity tags when the contact is saved.

Here's my code to get the tags (it works fine).

    public function getEntityTags($contactId)
    {
        $result = civicrm_api3('EntityTag', 'get', array(
            'entity_id' => $contactId,
            'options' => array('limit' => 100)
        ));

        if (empty($result['values']))
            return [];
        else {
            foreach ($result['values'] as $key => $value)
                $tags[$key] = $value['tag_id'];
            return $tags;
        }
    }

I've tried multiple ways to add / delete the contacts tags, but have not succeeded. One issue is that the above api call only returns the tag_id, not the id of the row holding the entity tag row.

The Entity Tag delete api, which I need if the user deselects a previously selected tag requires the actual row id as such:

    $result = civicrm_api3('EntityTag', 'delete', array(
      'id' => "SomeId",
    ));

I thought of using the replace action but can't find any documentation on how to make it work. Here's what I would like to do.

            $result = civicrm_api3('EntityTag', 'replace', array(
                'sequential' => 1,
                'entity_id' => $contactId,
                'tag_id' => $newTags,
            ));

In the above code (which fails with "Mandatory key(s) missing from params array: values") $newTags is an array of tags the contact should have. I was hoping "replace" would update the complete set of entity tags with the new set.

Please help as I'm currently at a dead end.