[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20536: Make $taxonomy an optional argument to &get_term()

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#20536: Make $taxonomy an optional argument to &get_term()
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 Reporter:  TomAuger     |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Taxonomy     |     Version:
 Severity:  minor        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |
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Comment (by duck_):

 Replying to [ticket:20536 TomAuger]:
 > Either way, there's no ambiguity that needs $taxonomy in order to be
 resolved. In fact, just by knowing the term's ID, you can get at the
 $taxonomy through a join to wp_term_taxonomy because term_id is unique.
 Even two terms with the same name would have different IDs and a single
 term_ID will not be associated with multiple wp_term_taxonomy records
 (although the database table IS built as a M<-->M intersection table which
 such a relationship is possible, WordPress doesn't re-use term records
 that way.)

 Unfortunately I don't think that's correct. If you add a new category
 named "test" and a new tag named "test" you get:

 {{{
 +---------+---------------+---------------+
 | term_id | name          | slug          |
 +---------+---------------+---------------+
 |       3 | test          | test          |
 +---------+---------------+---------------+
 }}}

 {{{
 +------------------+---------+---------------+
 | term_taxonomy_id | term_id | taxonomy      |
 +------------------+---------+---------------+
 |                3 |       3 | category      |
 |                4 |       3 | post_tag      |
 +------------------+---------+---------------+
 }}}

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