How to programatically access the value of a taxonomy term reference?

Question

I have a taxonomy term reference field attached to my user account.

I tried getting the value programatically in the same way as I get the value for text fields, but it doesn't work.

use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountProxyInterface;
use Drupal\user\Entity\User;

$account = User::load($account->id());
// Returns the correct value.
$textfield = $account->get('field_textfield')->value;
// Does not return the correct value.
$termreference = $account->get('field_termreference')->value;

How am I supposed to get the value (name) of the referenced term programatically?

Answer 1

As the taxonomy term is a reference the value (or label) is not stored in the user entity, just the target_id. So you need to use:

$termreference = $account->get('field_termreference')->target_id;

This should be your code:

use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountProxyInterface;
use Drupal\user\Entity\User;

$account = User::load($account->id());
// Returns the correct value.
$textfield = $account->get('field_textfield')->value;
// You need to use the target_id to access to the value.
$termreference = $account->get('field_termreference')->target_id;

Now you need to search the label:

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

Your taxonomy label (name) will be in $name.

Answer 2

There is a slightly cleaner way to do this. When calling ->get('field_name') on a reference field it returns an instance of EntityReferenceFieldItemList. You can use this as an array and access the target_id and manually load the \Drupal::entityTypeManger() to subload, but that class actually has a method that does this for you:

$entity->get('field_tags')->referencedEntities();

Answer 3

field_taxonomy->value; not work. Only ->target_id; But if you use the module Field Token Value, you could access to the name of field_taxonomy saved as plain text like field_taxonomy_from_token_value->value;