postslider

i have the postlsider testet with show the category, but it does not work.
the cats are not shown.. i dont know why
this is the code
`if( ! empty( $title ) || in_array( $show_meta_data, array( ‘always’, ‘on_empty_title’ ) ) )
{
if( $show_meta )
{
$taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies( get_post_type( $the_id ) );
$cats = ”;
$excluded_taxonomies = array_merge( get_taxonomies( array( ‘public’ => false ) ), array( ‘post_tag’, ‘post_format’ ) );
$excluded_taxonomies = apply_filters( ‘avf_exclude_taxonomies’, $excluded_taxonomies, get_post_type( $the_id ), $the_id );

if( ! empty( $taxonomies ) )
{
foreach( $taxonomies as $taxonomy )
{
if( ! in_array( $taxonomy, $excluded_taxonomies ) )
{
$cats .= get_the_term_list( $the_id, $taxonomy, ”, ‘, ‘, ” ) . ‘ ‘;
}
}
}
if( ! empty( $cats ) )
{
$meta_out .= ‘<span class=”blog-categories minor-meta”> ‘;
$meta_out .= $cats;
$meta_out .= ‘</span>’;
}
}