8 September 2011

How to get vid - vocabulary id by vocabulary name in Drupal 6. You can get it by using this little function.

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  1. function my_module_get_vid_by_name($vocabulary_name) // don't froget to replace my_module with your modules machine name
  2. {
  3.   $vocabs = taxonomy_get_vocabularies();
  4.   foreach ($vocabs as $vocab_object)
  5.   {
  6.     if($vocab_object->name == $vocabulary_name)
  7.     {
  8.       return $vocab_object->vid;
  9.     }
  10.   }
  11.   return FALSE;
  12. }
Programming Language: PHP