[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7505: Comment meta + API

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#7505: Comment meta + API
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 Reporter:  Viper007Bond  |       Owner:  anonymous               
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  2.9                     
Component:  General       |     Version:  2.7                     
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  dev-feedback needs-patch
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 There is currently no good way to store extra information about
 commenters. Plugins like comment ratings, threaded comments (I assume),
 commenter country, etc. all must either modify the `wp_comments` table or
 use a table of their own to store the additional information.

 I propose that we need a `wp_commentmeta` table that works similarly to
 the `wp_postmeta` table. I imagine that the current API could even just be
 extended a bit to have a "type" (post vs. comments) as to what it's
 modifying and some wrapper functions for each type. That way two separate
 APIs would not be needed.

 Thoughts? I was tempted to post this to wp-hackers instead, but things
 there always go off on tangents, so...

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