Posted 4 years ago #
I find it very irritating that you can't define all tags to be returned rather than echoed.
I'm trying to re-work how comments are being processed in my theme, and now I can't because I can't return simple tags like comment_ID or comment_text - it's not exactly hard to flag all tags with a true/false boolean to determine if the call wants it to be returned as echo or return does it?
Posted 4 years ago #
Damn, Google pulled through for me a little too late.
This is badly documented, but appending get_ to the beginning of a template tag will return it rather than echoing it.
Therefore...
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$get_comment_id // Will return the ID, but not print it to the page
$comment_id // Will print it to the page, rather than return it.
}Handy to know, thanks for posting back your findings, i can't say i would have realised that without you clearly explaining what you wanted and the difference between the 2.
Not something that will help me at the moment but i had noticed the functions were printing the values rather then returning them.
Thanx it will come in handy i'm sure.
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