Timeline for How do I get the taxonomy term ID from its name?

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S Mar 26, 2015 at 0:28	history	suggested	Paul Sheldrake	CC BY-SA 3.0	updated example code to be a bit cleaner
Mar 25, 2015 at 23:34	review	Suggested edits
S Mar 26, 2015 at 0:28
Aug 8, 2013 at 0:50	history	edited	avpaderno♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 26 characters in body
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:44	vote	accept	beth
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:44	history	edited	Jimajamma	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 4 characters in body
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:42	comment	added	Jimajamma		I just quickly typed in the D6 version that I am used to. I see now from your links/urls included that you are running D7. The comments above should clarify things for you.
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:37	comment	added	mpdonadio♦		@beth, either use the second parameter to limit to a particular vocabulary, or loop through with `foreach ($terms as $term)` and check the `$term->vid` to make sure you have the right one.
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:35	comment	added	Letharion		It returns an array as there is nothing preventing multiple terms from having the same name. You can't know it's only one item.
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:32	comment	added	beth		That seems to give me an array rather than a TID. `$foo[0]->tid` doesn't do anything because it returns an array keyed with TIDs. So to get the TID I need the TID, or to do a `foreach()` even though it's only on one item? Otherwise: `Undefined offset: 0`
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:25	review	Suggested edits
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:25
Jul 10, 2012 at 14:22	history	answered	Jimajamma	CC BY-SA 3.0