get menu id using its name

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I have a menu name Social Network. I want to get the menus ID. I tried the following, but didn’t succeed.

  global $wpdb;
$menu_slug = 'social-network';
$menu_id = $wpdb->get_results(
    "
    SELECT TERM_ID
    FROM $wpdb->wp_terms
    WHERE name = ".$menu_slug."
    "
);
echo $menu_id;

4 Answers
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You can use the function get_term_by and use ‘name’ in the field param.

<?php get_term_by( $field, $value, $taxonomy, $output, $filter ) ?>

Example:

$term = get_term_by('name', 'Social Network', 'nav_menu');
$menu_id = $term->term_id;

Here is the link to the codex page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by

Hope this helps.

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