[wp-hackers] Best way to verify if a post_id is valid

[John Blackbourn]

Whoops, wp_is_post_revision() and wp_is_post_autosave() rather.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:55 AM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> wp_is_post_revision() and wp_is_post_revision() will probably help.
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Hikari <lists at hikarinet.info> wrote:
>> tnx for the reply
>>
>>
>> what I want is basically know if that ID refers to a post that exists and can be accesses
>>
>> it will be used to get the post permalink and title, and if it's an invalid ID the function should return an error
>>
>>
>> by "invalid" I mean, beyond an ID that is not in database, also "posts" that are revisions, or weren't published yet (draft, trash,
>> etc)
>>
>> if that ID has a post that can be accesses by a URL, I want its pernalink, else I wanna return an error
>>
>>
>>
>> get_post() is what I'm doing now, more precisely get_post($value, ARRAY_A), so I'm in the right way
>>
>> thanks to Google I found http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status_Transitions, but I wasn't able to find the difference from draft to
>> pending to new status
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "scribu" <scribu at gmail.com>
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, 21 February, 2010 10:54 AM
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Best way to verify if a post_id is valid
>>
>>
>> | Maybe something like:
>> |
>> | if ( $post = get_post($post_id) && 'post' == $post->post_type && 'publish'
>> | == $post->post_status) {
>> |    // do stuff
>> | }
>> |
>> | Of course, it depends on what you're doing. So, there's no universal "best
>> | way".
>> |
>>
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