How to get product category id by its label?

Question

WordPress

Hello! There is a site on wordpress + woocommerce and there is a category label for which I want to get its id, but the function https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get... does not work
$idObj = get_category_by_slug('category-slug');
returns bool (false) why and how to fix it?

Answer 1

thought it might be useful for someone

$itemcat = get_query_var('term');
$category = get_term_by('slug', $itemcat, 'product_cat', 'ARRAY_A'); 
$category_id = $category["term_id"];