Programmatically create drupal term

Ever wanted to programmatically create drupal term? Here is the code snippet. Just call the below function by passing vocabulary id under which you want to create term.

function term_create($vid)
{
$edit = array ("vid" => $vid, "name" => $term_name);
taxonomy_save_term($edit);
}

Of course, you have to run this in a drupal environment, which means that you should have bootstrapped drupal before using the above function.

One issue with the above function is it uses vocabulary id, which we don't have/know most of the time. There is a quick solution. You can use below function to get vocabulary id from name.

function get_vocabulary_id ($vname)
{
$results = db_query('SELECT * FROM {vocabulary} WHERE name = "%s"', $vname);
if($results)
{
$res=db_fetch_object($results);
return $res->vid;
}
else
{
return null;
}
}