How to get taxonomy term name from tid?

Question

A lot of our stuff has uris formatted like site/taxonomy/XX, where XX is an integer.

I found a lot of questions like "how to get the TID from the name?", but I'd like to get the name from the TID. I'm trying to put together a breadcrumb script and everything is great except for these cases where I'm getting a trail like "home > term". Instead I want to have it like "home > <TERM NAME>".

How can I do so?

Answer 1

If you're using Drupal 7 you can use taxonomy_term_load()

$term = taxonomy_term_load($tid);
$name = $term->name;

If you've got a bunch of term IDs you can save having to run a single query for each load by using taxonomy_term_load_multiple():

$tids = array(1, 2, 3);
$terms = taxonomy_term_load_multiple($tids);

foreach ($terms as $term) {
  $name = $term->name;
}

If you're stuck using Drupal 6 you can use taxonomy_get_term():

$term = taxonomy_get_term($tid);
$name = $term->name;

There's no multiple-load option for Drupal 6 that I know of unfortunately.

Answer 2

In Drupal 8, you can get the name of taxonomy terms this way:

$term = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('taxonomy_term')->load($tid);

$name = $term->label();

Or to load multiple:

$terms = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('taxonomy_term')->loadMultiple($tids);

foreach($terms as $term) {
  $name = $term->label();
}

Answer 3

The following function returns the name of a taxonomy term based on its tid:

function get_term($tid) {
  return db_select('taxonomy_term_data', 't')
  ->fields('t', array('name'))
  ->condition('tid', $tid)
  ->execute()
  ->fetchField();
}

Answer 4

For D7:

$term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($term_name, $vocab_name);  
  foreach($term as $key => $data) {  
    $tid = $data->tid;  

    dpm($tid);  

  }  

For D8:

$term_name = \Drupal\taxonomy\Entity\Term::load(2)->get('name')->value;  
dpm($term_name);  

Answer 5

It is possible to obtain the name of the term in Drupal 8 in the following way:

//Obtain the term.
$tid=1;
$term= taxonomy_term_load($tid);

//get the field name
$term->label();

//or
$term->get('name')->value;