[wp-hackers] Bug in get_categories when asking for category children?

[Knut-Olav Hoven]

Added a ticket.
I do not have a patch yet.

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4870

On Thursday 30 August 2007 13:21:32 Knut-Olav Hoven wrote:
> When asking for categories that are child of another category (cat1) and to
> include empty categories I get different behaviour wether cat1 has children
> or not.
>
>
> Take the following code:
> ## CODE ##
> $cat_children   = get_categories(
>         array(
>                 'child_of'      => 1,
>                 'hide_empty'    => false,
>         );
> );
>
> print_r($cat_children);
> ## CODE END ##
>
>
> Scenario 1:
> I have the following categories:
> 1 - cat1 (no parent)
> 2 - cat2 (no parent)
> 3 - cat3 (parent:1)
>
> In this case it prints out cat3.
>
>
> Scenario 2:
> I have the following categories:
> 1 - cat1 (no parent)
> 2 - cat2 (no parent)
>
> In this case it prints out cat1 and cat2.
>
>
> What I want/need is the function to return an empty list, simply because
> cat1 doesn't have any children.



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