[wp-hackers] WordPress versions <-> functions map

Viper007Bond viper at viper007bond.com
Sun Sep 30 00:40:23 GMT 2007


Heh, that's pretty much identical to what I was going to do, except I was
going to do it in PHP (as it's the only thing I know).

Mind saving me some trouble and sending those text files my way? :D

On 9/29/07, Leonid Mamchenkov <leonid at mamchenkov.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 9/29/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> > I've been thinking about this for the past half hour or so and I
> actually
> > think it'd be a lot, lot easier than I had previously thought. Infact, I
> > think I might actually be able to pull it off!
>
> Here is a little help to get you started.
>
> Generating a list of functions per WP version is a once off operation
> (only needs to be repeated for each new version coming out).  I guess
> doing it in command line is simpler and shorter than in PHP.  Here is
> a working example, which I ran in a tags/ directory checked out from
> WP SVN:
>
> ======
> for DIR in * ; do cd $DIR && echo "Working on $DIR" && grep '^function
> ' `find | grep '.php' | grep -v '.svn'` | sed -e 's/^.*:function //'
> -e 's/(.*$//' | sort | uniq > "../$DIR.txt" && cd .. ; done
> ======
>
> It works for about half a minute on my ancient laptop and produces a
> list of text files like:
>
> 2.0.txt
> 2.1.1.txt
> 2.1.2.txt
> 2.1.3.txt
> 2.1.txt
> 2.2.1.txt
> 2.2.2.txt
> 2.2.3.txt
> 2.2.txt
> 2.3.txt
>
> In each of those files there is an alphabetically sorted list of
> functions for that version.  One function per line with no parameters
> or anything.  The list of functions looks something like:
>
> __
> add_action
> add_clean_index
> add_custom_image_header
> add_feed
> add_filter
> add_js
> add_link
> addLoadEvent
> add_magic_quotes
> add_management_page
> add_menu_page
>
> With something as trivial as grep and diff you can find the
> differences between version and all version where the function exists,
> and from there - when it was first defined.
>
> Overall it works pretty good for something I spent 10 minutes on.  The
> things that you should keep in mind are:
>
> - the above looks for function definitions which only happen in .php
> files and start from the beginning of line.
>
> - the above doesn't care if the php file was actually included or not,
> or if the function is commented out via multiline comment
>
>
> And just to give a digital candy to anyone who finished reading this
> long email, here are some simple stats from the resulting files.
>
> Number of functions per WordPress version:
>
> 552 1.5
> 569 1.5.1
> 569 1.5.1.1
> 569 1.5.1.2
> 569 1.5.1.3
> 570 1.5.2
>
> 702 2.0
> 706 2.0.1
> 706 2.0.2
> 718 2.0.3
> 729 2.0.4
> 733 2.0.5
> 735 2.0.6
> 735 2.0.7
> 735 2.0.8
> 735 2.0.9
> 738 2.0.10
> 744 2.0.11
>
> 883 2.1
> 883 2.1.1
> 883 2.1.2
> 887 2.1.3
>
> 951 2.2
> 953 2.2.1
> 953 2.2.2
> 954 2.2.3
>
> 1058 2.3
>
> Enjoy ;)
>
> --
> Leonid Mamchenkov
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