function taxonomy_get_term_by_name in Drupal 4

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 5 modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module \taxonomy_get_term_by_name()
2. 6 modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module \taxonomy_get_term_by_name()
3. 7 modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module \taxonomy_get_term_by_name()

Try to map a string to an existing term, as for glossary use.

Provides a case-insensitive and trimmed mapping, to maximize the likelihood of a successful match.

Parameters

name: Name of the term to search for.

Return value

An array of matching term objects.

1 call to taxonomy_get_term_by_name()

taxonomy_node_save in modules/taxonomy.module

Save term associations for a given node.

File

modules/taxonomy.module, line 994

Enables the organization of content into categories.

Code

function taxonomy_get_term_by_name($name) {
  $db_result = db_query(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT t.tid, t.* FROM {term_data} t WHERE LOWER('%s') LIKE LOWER(t.name)", 't', 'tid'), trim($name));
  $result = array();
  while ($term = db_fetch_object($db_result)) {
    $result[] = $term;
  }
  return $result;
}