[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41025: get_comment_text and comment_text do not return the same result.

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#41025: get_comment_text and comment_text do not return the same result.
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 Reporter:  BackuPs       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * component:  General => Comments
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 > Can you explain more as both functions comment_text() and
 get_comment_text() call the filter and i still don't understand where the
 difference in result is coming from.

 That's not the case. `get_comment_text()` has the `get_comment_text`
 filter in it and `comment_text()` has the `comment_text` filter.

 If you look at `wp-includes/default-filters.php`, you can see plenty of
 functions that are hooked to `comment_text`, but not `get_ comment_text`.
 These functions are for formatting and add the actual paragraphs etc.

 > comment_text does the echo of the comment whereas using get_comment_text
 returns the string. But that string should be exactly the same without any
 difference in the text as comment_text.

 For historical reasons, those are not the same. `get_comment_text()` is
 good for modifying the text before processing it. You don't really want
 automatically generated HTML to be in there.

 > So why does get_comment_text strip all p-tags and comment_text does not?

 It's the other way around. In `comment_text()`, the HTML is being
 ''added''. If you want to have the same HTML in `get_comment_text()` as
 well, you can add the needed functions to the filter.

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 I'm closing this because it's not really a bug and for BC reasons it's not
 something we should change.

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