get_term_by seems to be failing

Question

Code:

print_r($wp->query_vars);
echo "<br><br>".get_query_var('term');
echo "<br><br>".get_query_var('taxonomy');
$term = get_term_by('slug', get_query_var('term'), get_query_var('taxonomy') );
echo "<br><br>$term";

Output:

Array ( [titles] => windows-powershell-v2 [taxonomy] => titles [term] => windows-powershell-v2 ) 

windows-powershell-v2

titles

As you can see, the first three lines run fine. The fourth line fails with no error - but it terminates page execution. The specified term does indeed exist in the taxonomy; this is being reached with the URL /titles/windows-powershell-v2/.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

get_term_by() returns object by default. Which should end up in Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string if you try to echo it. Likely you have errors suppressed.

Try var_dump( $term ); instead of echo.