Formalize a list of "Object Types"

[mikeschinkel]

I'm finding a need to use a defined list of object types for numerous things including for object relationships, term relationships that relate taxonomy terms to something other than a post, data entry forms, and I am sure there are more than just these requirements (An "object" is anything in WordPress for which we can identify a name and a unique ID form the database, i.e. $post->ID, $user->ID, $term->term_id and so on.)

While thinking about it this seems to be something that would be valuable to include core so I am proposing and submitting a patch for their potential inclusion. If this is not something that the team would want to include then I'll simply incorporate them into my own code but I wanted to make sure that the team wouldn't want to include them into WordPress core instead.

Patch to /wp-settings.php to require object-types.php

Shouldn't those be run through __() ?

In general, we don't include strings that are not directly used in Core: #14972

Yes, I realize that the strings aren't the main thing you're interested in.

Replying to scribu:

Shouldn't those be run through __() ?

In general, we don't include strings that are not directly used in Core: #14972

Great point, and fixing it caused me to realize I had forgotten something too, to make the values an array to enable support for future object type attributes. I'm uploading a patch to overwrite the first one.

/wp-includes/object-types.php