WordPress category object structure

WordPress category object structure.php

<?php

# If you haven't played around with WordPress much and you're trying to find out what
# exactly this "category object" thing that's referenced in many places is. You might
# look for a category table in the database for some clues, but there isn't one. That's
# because WordPress uses "terms" to handle both categories and tags, each of which are
# "taxonomies". Looking in those tables will give you want you want, or you could just
# print a category object.
#
# More info: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Taxonomy

print_r(get_the_category());

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
            [term_id] => 3 # category_id
            [name] => News
            [slug] => news
            [term_group] => 0
            [term_taxonomy_id] => 3 # identifies this "term" as a category
            [taxonomy] => category
            [description] => 
            [parent] => 0
            [count] => 215
            [object_id] => 1262
            
            # The following properties seem to be for compatibility with
            # the older API, which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere either.
            [cat_ID] => 3
            [category_count] => 215
            [category_description] => 
            [cat_name] => News
            [category_nicename] => news
            [category_parent] => 0
        )

)

?>