Finding the vocabulary id in Drupal 7 with Drush

By Robin on 03 Jun 2011

In Drupal 6 as you could go into the taxonomy section of the admin area and look at the vocabulary edit URL to find the numerical vocabulary id. In Drupal 7 the URL is no longer as verbose as it now shows the machine name of the vocabulary, for example admin/structure/taxonomy/my_vocabulary/edit.

If you have access to Drush, there is another way to quickly find the VID though:

drush php-eval '$tax=taxonomy_vocabulary_machine_name_load("main_site_structure"); echo $tax->vid;'
 

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Finding the vocabulary id in Drupal 7 with Drush

By Robin on 03 Jun 2011

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Can't get this to work, damn

By Jnsl (not verified) on 07 Jul 2011 at about 13:53.

Can't get this to work, damn seems very handy though

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Hi Jnsl, Just tested this on

By admin on 07 Jul 2011 at about 14:03.

Hi Jnsl,

Just tested this on another server / another D7 install (Drush version 4.4), works like a charm:

drush php-eval '$tax=taxonomy_vocabulary_machine_name_load("tags"); echo$tax->vid;'

where "tags" is the machine name.

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Ah ofc. I'm sleeping, missed

By Jnsl (not verified) on 07 Jul 2011 at about 14:16.

Ah ofc. I'm sleeping, missed the machine name hehe. Thanks for quick reply