2010
03.24

Drupal – Get Vocabulary Name by VID

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This function retrieves vocabulary names by their id.

getVocabularyNameByVID($vid)

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function getVocabularyNameByVID($vid) {
  /* make sure vid is numeric */
  if(!is_numeric($vid)) return false;
 
  /* fetch name */
  $result = db_query("SELECT name FROM {vocabulary} WHERE vid = %d", $vid);
  $name = db_fetch_object($result)->name;
 
  /* return name or false if not found */
  return $name ? $name : false;
}

Usage

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print getVocabularyNameByVID(1);

2 comments so far

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  1. Troels said: 2011.03.14 16:09

    use function taxonomy_vocabulary_load() from taxonomy module instead.

  2. IcanDivideBy0 said: 2011.03.30 16:19

    why not simply use the following ?
    taxonomy_vocabulary_load($vid)->name

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