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I am getting my term description using taxonomy_get_term_by_name().

I'm having problems with term names like "barnes & noble" and "Café"; I guess it must have something to do with the special characters. How can I filter my taxonomy name input the best way to get back term results?

I'm using the function in a views-view-list.tpl.php template, where $title is outputting the taxonomy; then I use $title with the following code.

$terms = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($title, 'places');

$title seems to be stripped from all kind of htmltags - its plain text.

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  • What are the errors you are getting ? I just tested the same in d7 instance and i don't see any with above terms ?
    – Anil Sagar
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 15:26
  • Hi Anil, I'm not getting any errors, just an empty array as no taxonomy by that name exist.
    – Sven Rishede Philipsen
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 15:31
  • I just created two terms under tags vocab and called $term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name("barnes & noble"); drupal_set_message("<pre>" . print_r($term, 1) . "</pre>"); It worked perfectly !!
    – Anil Sagar
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 15:33
  • Hi Anil, You are right. I guess the problem must be elsewhere then.
    – Sven Rishede Philipsen
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 15:45
  • How are you printing details ? Can you post your code ?
    – Anil Sagar
    Commented Oct 19, 2012 at 15:52

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It was only the & charter there was making problems. This was the solution:

$terms = taxonomy_get_term_by_name(str_replace('&amp;', '&', $title), 'places');
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