How do I get the content type name using code?

Question

I'm working on Drupal 8 and I want to get content type machine name and label. Here is my code:

$cont_type = node_type_get_types();
foreach ($cont_type as $key => $value) {
  $label = $value->name;
  $machine_name = $key;
}

I get the following error message:

Cannot access protected property Drupal\node\Entity\NodeType::$name

Hoe can I get the content type name?

Answer 1

To get a property, there is ConfigEntityBase::get(). Since ConfigEntityBase is a base class for NodeType, you can always use $value->get('name') to get the value of the name property.

Answer 2

name is the label of the node type entity, so you can get that with $node_type->label(). That works for any entity type, if what you want is specified as the label key in the entity type annotation.

Answer 3

To get names of content type you can use below function

node_type_get_names();

Answer 4

$cont_type = node_type_get_types();
foreach ($cont_type as $key => $value) {
  $label = $value->get('name');
  $machine_name = $key;
}