By aaronp on

I have the term name; how on earth do I get the term ID in a block using PHP?

Simple question; hopefully it's a simple answer ;)

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

how about _taxonomy_get_tid_from_term-- is that simple? ;-)

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marcp commented 
<?php
  // Get a term object by name
  $term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($name);

  // Print the term id
  print $term->tid;
?>

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aaronp’s picture

aaronp commented

Awesome; this works with one modification. It looks like taxonomy_get_term_by_name($name) returns an array, which makes sense because the term names are not unique, only the ID's. That is, you might have a term with the same name in two separate vocabularies (or even in the same vocabulary, I suppose?).

This will print the term ID of the first matching term. A better way to do this, of course, would be to loop through all the available options and output 'em.

<?php
  // Get a term object by name
  $term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($name);

  // Print the term id
  print $term[0]->tid;
?>

Thanks again for everyone's help.