[wp-hackers] Useless Filter

[Nathan Rice]

Well, I was just wondering if I overlooked any way of getting some sort of
argument (ideally the $page object variable) into my filter function.

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, you can't do add_filter($name, $callback, $priority, $number_of_args,
> $CUSTOM_ARGS) right? Or that's not what you're asking...
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Nathan Rice <ncrice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My mistake guys and gals. The filter isn't useless.
> >
> > So I'm not missing anything there, though, right?  There is no current
> way
> > of passing variables into a filter function for that particular instance
> of
> > the_title?
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > My Website
> > http://www.nathanrice.net/
> >
> > My Twitter
> > http://twitter.com/nathanrice
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jennifer Hodgdon <
> yahgrp at poplarware.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > In answer to your question at the end of your post: You are missing
> > > something. There are some plugins that need to filter titles in a way
> > that
> > > only depends on the text.
> > >
> > > If you are interested, one example is multi-lingual plugins. When you
> > edit
> > > a post, you type something like this in for the post title:
> > >  [lang_en]Title in English[/lang_en][lang_es]Titulo en
> Español[/lang_es]
> > > But when the blog is being viewed, you only display either English or
> > > Spanish, depending on URL, cookies, etc. That is done with a
> 'the_title'
> > > filter, which decides on the language and spits out just one part of
> that
> > > text. Independent of post ID, where it is being used, etc.
> > >
> > > I'm not saying you shouldn't advocate adding some more information to
> > > 'the_title', but the current usage is NOT useless.
> > >
> > >   --Jennifer
> > >
> > >
> > > Nathan Rice wrote:
> > >
> > >> So last night I was trying to build a plugin when I ran across this
> code
> > >> in
> > >> http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/wp-includes/classes.php
> > >>
> > >> $output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' .
> > >> get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' .
> > >> attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '">'
> .
> > >> $link_before . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) .
> > $link_after
> > >> .
> > >> '</a>';
> > >>
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >> Am I missing something, or am I right in thinking that the use of this
> > >> filter here is completely non-existent?
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare
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