Ticket #10948: return-wp-list-comments.diff

wp-includes/comment-template.php

@@ -1420 +1420 @@
         $comment_alt = $comment_thread_alt = 0;
         $comment_depth = 1;
 
-        $defaults = array('walker' => null, 'max_depth' => '', 'style' => 'ul', 'callback' => null, 'end-callback' => null, 'type' => 'all',
-                'page' => '', 'per_page' => '', 'avatar_size' => 32, 'reverse_top_level' => null, 'reverse_children' => '');
+        $defaults = array( 'walker' => null, 'max_depth' => '', 'style' => 'ul', 'callback' => null, 'end-callback' => null, 'type' => 'all',
+                'page' => '', 'per_page' => '', 'avatar_size' => 32, 'reverse_top_level' => null, 'reverse_children' => '', 'echo' => 1 );
 
         $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
 
@@ -1488 +1488 @@
 
         if ( empty($walker) )
                 $walker = new Walker_Comment;
-
-        $walker->paged_walk($_comments, $max_depth, $page, $per_page, $r);
+        
+        ob_start();
+        $walker->paged_walk( $_comments, $max_depth, $page, $per_page, $r );
+        $output = ob_get_clean();
+        
         $wp_query->max_num_comment_pages = $walker->max_pages;
 
         $in_comment_loop = false;
+        
+        if ( $r['echo'] )
+                echo $output;
+        else
+                return $output; 
 }
 
 /**