[wp-hackers] Conditionals not working properly when trying to filter admin_footer_text

[Kim Parsell]

On 7/6/2011 1:29 AM, Lutz Schröer wrote:
>> Is there an issue with using conditionals when trying to filter
>> admin_footer_text? If not, any ideas on why the above code isn't 
>> functioning properly?
>
> As John pointed out you need to return the footer text in your 
> function. In your code you're returning nothing if the condition is 
> not fulfilled. You have to use the standard footer text as a parameter 
> for the function and return this text if the condition is not fulfilled.
>
> This function should work:
>
> function my_custom_admin_footer_text($footer_text) {
>     global $blog, $blog_id, $current_user, $custom_footer_text, $id, 
> $wp_db_version;
>
>     $custom_footer_text = '<span id="footer-thankyou">'.__('Powered 
> by<a title="WordPress" 
> href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>').'</span>';
>
>     /* Let's change the footer text for Subscribers in WordPress 3.2 
> or higher */
>
>     if ((!current_user_can('edit_posts') || 
> !current_user_can_for_blog($blog_id, 'edit_posts')) &&  
> $wp_db_version>= 18226) {
>         return $custom_footer_text;
>     }
>     else {
>       return $footer_text;
>    }
> }

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That worked perfectly Lutz, thank you so much! :)

Kim