Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#16550 new enhancement

wp_set_post_categories should take an integer

Reported by: ptahdunbar Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Future Release
Component: Taxonomy Version: 3.0
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch
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Description

wp_set_post_categories(); can only be passed an array of cat ids. If you pass it an integer, it resets the value to the default category even though the category exists.

This happens as the if statement runs an OR check to see if the second parameter is not an array or empty. If one is true, it just goes on ahead and resets the parameter to be the default category regardless if the value was empty or a string.

Patch fixes this by strict typing the second parameter to an array. It also strict types the default category id as it was being returned as a string.

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ticket.16550.diff (626 bytes) - added by ptahdunbar 2 years ago.
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Change History (6)

comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2   ocean902 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Taxonomy

Please provide a patch relative to trunk.

comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1   ptahdunbar2 years ago

Replying to ocean90:

Please provide a patch relative to trunk.

Oops. There ya go.

  • Keywords has-patch added
  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release
  • Summary changed from wp_set_post_categories is defected to wp_set_post_categories should take an integer
  • Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
  • Version changed from 3.1 to 3.0

Re-classifying this ticket. It's not a defect -- wp_set_post_categories() explicitly takes an array, so array( 3 ) rather than 3.

Other functions such as wp_set_object_terms() seem to not mind taking a scalar argument. So this looks like a fine enhancement.

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