get_users() doesn't allow hyphens in meta_key parameter

[mordauk]

When retrieving users with the get_users() function, the meta_key parameter does not work if the key contains a hyphen (dash).

For example:

$members = get_users(array(
		'meta_key' => 'job-seeking',
		'meta_value' => 1,
	)
);

That will result in no members being found, even though at least one user with a meta_key of "job-seeking" with a value of 1 does exist.

This, however, will work:

$members = get_users(array(
		'meta_key' => 'job_seeking',
		'meta_value' => 1,
	)
);

[hakre]

Can you clarify if the meta key is job-seeking or job_seeking in the database data?

It might just be that meta keys are normalized.

[mordauk]

It's not, it definitely has the hyphen.

Doing get_user_meta($user_id, 'job-seeking', true) works fine (returns the value).

Doing update_user_meta($user_id, 'job-seeking', 1) also works fine and saves the data.

I've also just looked through the usermeta table and there are lots of keys with hyphens, so they're not getting normalized upon creation. At least as far as I can tell.

[iseulde]

Works for me in 3.6.