[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43440: Add tools to show and export the personal data of commenters

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#43440: Add tools to show and export the personal data of commenters
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 Reporter:  azaozz            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  Administration    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by xkon):

 [attachment:43440.1.diff] just cleans up the process a bit and returns a
 JSON with the:

 date
 author_email
 author_name
 author_url
 comment

 I added the date as a means of reference, I'm sure it will somehow be
 needed eventually if somebody comes to the use of the export function.

 As an example if we do :

 {{{
 $exports = export_comments( 'wapuu at wordpress.example' );
 error_log( print_r( $exports, true ) );
 }}}

 We can get:

 {{{
 [
    {
       "date":"2018-03-06 06:58:01",
       "author_email":"wapuu at wordpress.example",
       "author_name":"A WordPress Commenter",
       "author_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/",
       "comment":"Hi, this is a comment.\r\nTo get started with moderating,
 editing, and deleting comments, please visit the Comments screen in the
 dashboard.\r\nCommenter avatars come from Gravatar<\/a>."
    },
    {
       "date":"2018-03-06 06:58:01",
       "author_email":"wapuu at wordpress.example",
       "author_name":"A WordPress Commenter",
       "author_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/",
       "comment":"Hi, this is a comment.\r\nTo get started with moderating,
 editing, and deleting comments, please visit the Comments screen in the
 dashboard.\r\nCommenter avatars come from Gravatar<\/a>."
    }
 ]
 }}}

 We can either show this JSON for copy/paste in a placeholder or make it a
 file etc on the actual Tools page.

 IMHO as this pretty much extends the current comments functions either
 way, it might be useful in the future in different areas as well if we
 want to add more things or make it create a wider range of options /
 exports.

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