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# Taxonomies

Taxonomies are the main way to categorize content in Drupal.

Taxonomies are used to group content in a specific category. For example, you can create a taxonomy term called "News" and then you can create a taxonomy term called "Sports" and then you can create a taxonomy term called "Politics". These are the main categories that you can use to group content. As opposed to nodes, taxonomy terms are not content, they are just categories.

## Get Taxonomy Term Names

### Method 1 - Using entityTypeManager

```php
$tree = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('taxonomy_term')->loadTree(
  'grafica_ambito', // The taxonomy term vocabulary machine name.
  0,                 // The "tid" of parent using "0" to get all.
  1,                 // Get only 1st level.
  TRUE               // Get full load of taxonomy term entity.
);
$results = [];

foreach ($tree as $term) {
  $results[] = $term->getName();
}
```

### Method 2 - Using EntityQuery

```php
$results = \Drupal::entityQuery('taxonomy_term')
    ->condition('vid', "TAXONOMY_TERM")
    ->sort('FIELD')
    ->execute();

  $term_names_array = [];

  $term = \Drupal\taxonomy\Entity\Term::load($result);
  $term_names_array[] = $term->getName();
```

### **Method 3 - Same as method 2 but using entityTypeManager**

```php

$taxonomy_terms = \Drupal::entityQuery('taxonomy_term')
    ->condition('vid', "TAXONOMY_TERM")
    ->sort('FIELD');

$results = $taxonomy_terms->execute();

$term_names_array = [];

foreach ($results as $result) {
  $term = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
    ->getStorage('taxonomy_term')
    ->load($result);
  $term_names_array[] = $term->getName();
}
```