drupal taxonomy term path to return alias

Question

Taxonomy term path:

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/taxonomy_term_path

Returns the unaliased path. I used pathauto to give the term alias, how can I return the aliased version?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use drupal_get_path_alias()

$path_alias = drupal_get_path_alias(taxonomy_term_path($term) );

Answer 2

you may want to explore the url() function as well. I use it all of the time with node ids.

$node_href = url('node/'.$nid);

although you probably want something like:

$term_href = url('taxonomy/term/' . $tid);