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<title>[11756] trunk/wp-includes/post.php:
Return an empty array instead of false for get_children()
when no children found.</title>
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<dt>Revision</dt> <dd><a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11756">11756</a></dd>
<dt>Author</dt> <dd>markjaquith</dd>
<dt>Date</dt> <dd>2009-07-31 09:31:56 +0000 (Fri, 31 Jul 2009)</dd>
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<h3>Log Message</h3>
<pre>Return an empty array instead of false for get_children() when no children found. props Denis-de-Bernardy. fixes <a href="http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10053">#10053</a></pre>
<h3>Modified Paths</h3>
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<li><a href="#trunkwpincludespostphp">trunk/wp-includes/post.php</a></li>
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<div class="modfile"><h4>Modified: trunk/wp-includes/post.php (11755 => 11756)</h4>
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<span class="info">--- trunk/wp-includes/post.php        2009-07-30 22:03:33 UTC (rev 11755)
+++ trunk/wp-includes/post.php        2009-07-31 09:31:56 UTC (rev 11756)
</span><span class="lines">@@ -114,11 +114,12 @@
</span><span class="cx"> * @return array|bool False on failure and the type will be determined by $output parameter.
</span><span class="cx"> */
</span><span class="cx"> function &get_children($args = '', $output = OBJECT) {
</span><ins>+        $kids = array();
</ins><span class="cx">         if ( empty( $args ) ) {
</span><span class="cx">                 if ( isset( $GLOBALS['post'] ) ) {
</span><span class="cx">                         $args = array('post_parent' => (int) $GLOBALS['post']->post_parent );
</span><span class="cx">                 } else {
</span><del>-                        return false;
</del><ins>+                        return $kids;
</ins><span class="cx">                 }
</span><span class="cx">         } elseif ( is_object( $args ) ) {
</span><span class="cx">                 $args = array('post_parent' => (int) $args->post_parent );
</span><span class="lines">@@ -134,10 +135,9 @@
</span><span class="cx">         $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
</span><span class="cx">
</span><span class="cx">         $children = get_posts( $r );
</span><del>-        if ( !$children ) {
-                $kids = false;
</del><ins>+        
+        if ( !$children )
</ins><span class="cx">                 return $kids;
</span><del>-        }
</del><span class="cx">
</span><span class="cx">         update_post_cache($children);
</span><span class="cx">
</span></span></pre>
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