[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17197: Attach media - search results not populating

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#17197: Attach media - search results not populating
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 Reporter:  tomauger      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor         |   Keywords:
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 Issue: Page / Post search not populating when using the Attach feature
 from the Media Library.

 Details: upon closer inspection this occurs as a result of extra
 whitespace in functions.php (ie: outside the <?php ?> tags

 To reproduce using TwentyTen:
 1. edit functions.php
 2. close the php code block with ?> at the very end of functions.php (why
 is it even left open??)
 3. add some blank lines (CR/LF) to the end of functions.php after the ?>

 Reload Media Library and attempt to use the Search feature: results are
 blank.

 Alternative steps:
 1. edit functions.php
 2. add whitespace before the <?php opening tag

 Why I think this is a bug:
 While it's not necessarily a good practice to add whitespace outside of
 the <?php ?> tags, it happens. More likely it will happen inside any child
 theme's functions.php, particularly if users are glibly copying-and-
 pasting code blocks from various sources on the interwebs. It seems
 strange that whatever code is displaying the search results even cares
 about whitespace in functions.php, but it would seem to me that it should
 not be displaying the contents of functions.php in any case, so the
 whitespace ought not to make a difference.

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