How do you retrieve a taxonomy term tid value from it's name? In this situation, use the loadByProperties function.  Load the taxonomy term and then reset the array. Note, reset - to set the internal pointer of an array to its first element. See as follows: /** * Get the taxonomy term object by the name * * @param string $term_name Vocabulary term. * * @return any Term.tid */ public function taxonomyTermByName($term_name) { if...

In this instance, I'll check the beginning of the string.  I want to focus on the href's that start with /node/.  Which has been added using the variable $catchPhrase. Using the Drupal service path_alias to return the node.nid as follows: /** * Load the node nid from the URL alias. * * @param string $url URL string. * * @return any */ public function getNodeNidFromAlias($url, $phrase) { // Default values. $nid = null; ...