title: Adding tags to Joomla programmatically
body: <p>I need to migrate about 600 tags from an old project to Joomla and would like to do that programmatically. I have looked but not found any hints about how that could be achieved. I found a few suggestions on how to add tags to an article programmatically (that might come in handy later, but first I need to have those tags). I thought about doing it straight via a database query but Joomla insists on using nested tables everywhere (tags table has a lft and rgt row). Can I safely ignore those or does it break the system somewhere down the line?</p>
  
  <p>thanks for any help in advance.</p>