[wp-hackers] get_settings or get_option ?

[Aaron Brazell]

On 8/24/06, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
>
> Austin Matzko wrote:
> > Right now, the function get_option() is an alias for get_settings().
> > Are there plans eventually to make one deprecated (like get_postdata()
> > is for get_post() ), or will they fork in behavior like do_action()
> > and apply_filters()?  If not, why the alias in the first place?
>
> We had get_settings() first and then as we fleshed out the api with add,
> delete, and update we decided to use the term option.  We can deprecate
> get_settings(), I suppose, but we'd need to change all occurrences of it
> in codebase to get_option().  We still use get_settings() in a lot of
> places.
>
> Ryan
>

Personally, I don't see any cost for having both. It's pretty much the same
as having a hook in there. I personally use both interchangeably and would
be bummed to see either function deprecated, so I'm giving it the big -1.

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