How to get a term from the translated term name?

Question

I have a translated taxonomy term whose name is Autos Y Motores (Spanish). How can I get the taxonomy term object from it?

If the term name were in English, I would use taxonomy_get_term_by_name('Vehicles & Motors') to get the taxonomy term object.

How can I do with a translated taxonomy term name?

Answer 1

You can try to translate it before pass it to taxonomy_get_term_by_name function, try some thing like

$string= 'De Lema'; // string in not default site language I suppose in French
$default_lang_short = 'un'; // I supposes you default site language is english change it to your default
$en_value = t($string, array(), array('langcode' => $default_lang_short));
taxonomy_get_term_by_name($en_value);

Answer 2

I don't find any function in Drupal which can translate the translated string into actual string. So, what I did was hit db to get the actual string and hence the string.

    $translated = 'Autos Y Motores';
    $query = db_select('locales_target', 'lt');
    $query
      ->condition('lt.translation', $target)
      ->fields('lt', array('translation'))
      ->fields('ls', array('source'))
      ->join('locales_source', 'ls', 'ls.lid=lt.lid');
    $results = $query->execute()->fetchAll();

Answer 3

If you have this set:

• ES: Autos Y Motores
• EN: Vehicles & Motors

Use this code:

 $term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name('Autos Y Motores');
 //getting the term object
 $term = array_values($term)[0];
 //searching the translation
 $translated_term = i18n_taxonomy_term_get_translation($term, 'en');
 //$translated_term is your term in English
 echo $translated_term->name;

Output:

Vehicles & Motors