“Trying to get property of non-object” error when using custom taxonomies

Question

I am encountering a weird error when working with custom taxonomies. I am trying to get the name of categories of a custom taxonomy:

$terms = get_terms('taxonomy_name');

foreach ($terms as $term) {

    $option = $term->name;
    echo $option;
  }

I'm not using the code into a template file, like page.php. I use it in functions.php but after the function which created the taxonomy. The code works fine if the taxonomy is a standard one like "category"(which displays regular post categories) but it's not working with custom ones.

I already tried to use $option = $term['name']; but with no luck. The error I get on this one is "Undefined index: name".

Any answer will be much appreciated!

Thank you! Madalin

Answer 1

 get_terms( 'taxonomy_name', array(
        'hide_empty' => 0) );

maybe?