Using excerpt as tag description

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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to create a function that allows me to replace the tag description with the excerpt of the same name/slug.

i.e. mypage.com/category/apples and mypage/tags/apple

Is this possible?

Here is what I have so far:

function tags(){
if (is_page('tag')){$tags = get_tags();}
else{$tags = get_the_tags();}
if (! $tags){echo "";}
else{
$html = '<ul class="tags">' . "\r\n\t" . '<li>Tags: </li>' . "\r\n\t" . '';
foreach ( $tags as $tag ){
	$tag_link = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
	$tag_group_labels = get_option( 'tag_group_labels', array() );
	$tag_group_ids = get_option( 'tag_group_ids', array() );
	$i = array_search($tag->term_group, $tag_group_ids);
	$lower = array_map('strtolower', $tag_group_labels);
	$description = str_replace('"', "''", $tag->description);
	global $post;

	$post_id = $tag->slug;
	$id = get_post($post_id);

	$html .= '<li class="' . $lower[$i] . ' ' . $tag->slug . ' tag">' . "\n\t";
	$html .= '<a href="' . $tag_link . '"';
	$html .= ' title="' . $tag->name . "\n\n";

	$html .= 'tag name: ' . $post_id . "\n\n";
	$html .= 'post name: ' . $post->post_name . "\n\n";
	$html .= 'post id:' . get_the_ID() . "\n\n";
	$html .= 'tag description: ' . $description . "\n\n";

	$html .= 'Tagged in ' . $tag->count . ' posts' . "\n\n";
	$html .= 'Catergory: ' . $tag_group_labels[$i] . "\n" . '">';
	$html .= $tag->name;
	$html .= '</a></li> '. "\n\n\t";
	}
$html .= '</ul>';
echo $html;
echo "\r\n";
}
}

$description is pulling in the actual description of the tag not the excerpt of the corresponding post.

Thanx for looking,
Sam

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