Print terms from a specific vocab at page.tpl drupal 7 - drupal-7

Question

I used to have a function to create a custom menu by loading all terms from a specific vocab at drupal 6:
function _taxonomy_top_links($vid = NULL) {
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid);
$taxos = array();
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$taxos[] = array('title' => $term->name, 'taxonomy/term/' . $term->tid, 'attributes' => array('rel' => 'tag', 'title' => strip_tags($term->description)));
}
return theme('links', $taxos, array('id' => 'menu-'. $vid, 'class' => 'menu clearfix'));
}
This doesn't work at drupal 7 which I guess related to the new field api. How do you grab all terms from a specific vocab to preprocess at page level?
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Most of your code should actually work fine, it's the theme part that is incorrect.
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid, 0, NULL, TRUE);
$links = array();
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$uri = entity_uri('taxonomy_term', $term);
$link = array(
'title' => $term->name,
'href' => $uri['path'],
'attributes' => array('rel' => 'tag'),
);
$link += $uri['options'];
if (!empty($term->description)) {
$link['title'] = strip_tags($term->description);
}
$links['tid-' . $term->tid] = $link;
}
$variables = array(
'links' => $links,
'attributes' => array(
'id' => 'menu-' . $vid,
'class' => array('menu', 'clearfix'),
),
);
return theme('links', $variables);