id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
23590	Rename wp_localize_script	bftrick		"Hello,

It's never made any sense to me to call a function that makes data from a php file accessible to a js file localize script. The name ''localize script'' makes me think of passing language specific data to a script. That is a valid and useful use of that method but it is only one use. It is similar to calling a spoon a cereal delivery system.

If we can give it a better name then other developers will be better able to find it an use it instead of coming up with their own methods (like embedding JS in a php file; eek!).

If you do a Google search for ""pass php variable to js in wordpress"" you get a lot of: ""I didn't know how to do this until someone told me about this function"". Here's some of the confusion:
- [http://tosbourn.com/2011/08/wordpress/accessing-php-variables-from-within-javascript-under-wordpress/]
- [http://ottopress.com/2010/passing-parameters-from-php-to-javascripts-in-plugins/]

For backwards compatibility would could make the wp_localize_script function an alias of the new method."	enhancement	closed	normal		General		normal	wontfix