[wp-hackers] Returning instead of echoing

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Thu Nov 25 05:05:57 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:33 -0600, Ryan Boren wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 23:52 -0700, Alex King wrote:
> > I thought we were going to have 'the_' and 'get_' functions, it looks 
> > like there is now a third set of 'get_the_' functions being created 
> > here. I'd be happy to standardize on the 'the_' and 'get_' versions; 
> > breaking things where necessary for the next major release.
> 
> We already have a number of 'get_the_' functions.  get_the_content(),
> get_the_excerpt(), get_the_category(), etc.  Many of the major template
> tags already have a 'get_the_' and 'the_' division.  'get_' are helpers
> for 'the_' and 'get_the_'.  For the most part, at least.
> 
> Ryan

Has everyone digested this?  Unless someone hollers, I'll commit Owen's
patch.

Ryan





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