[wp-hackers] Useless Filter

[Alan J Castonguay]

You could store the $page somewhere before the filter is called (it  
might already be in the global space, this is in the Loop?), and  
reference it from within the filter function.

-Alan

On 17-Feb-09, at 2:03 PM, Nathan Rice wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> www.poplarware.com
>>>>
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