Ticket #14389: 14389.diff

wp-includes/post.php

@@ -2040 +2040 @@
  * Retrieve number of recent posts.
  *
  * @since 1.0.0
- * @uses $wpdb
+ * @uses wp_parse_args()
+ * @uses get_posts()
  *
- * @param int $num Optional, default is 10. Number of posts to get.
- * @return array List of posts.
+ * @param string $deprecated Deprecated.
+ * @param array $args Optional. Overrides defaults.
+ * @param string $output Optional.
+ * @return unknown.
  */
-function wp_get_recent_posts($num = 10) {
+function wp_get_recent_posts( $deprecated = '', $args = null, $output = ARRAY_A ) {
         global $wpdb;
 
-        // Set the limit clause, if we got a limit
-        $num = (int) $num;
-        if ( $num ) {
-                $limit = "LIMIT $num";
+        if ( !empty( $deprecated ) ) {
+                if ( function_exists( 'deprecated_argument' ) )
+                        _deprecated_argument( __FUNCTION__, '3.1' );
+                $args['numberposts'] = $deprecated;
         }
 
-        $sql = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status IN ( 'draft', 'publish', 'future', 'pending', 'private' ) ORDER BY post_date DESC $limit";
-        $result = $wpdb->get_results($sql, ARRAY_A);
+        // Set default arguments
+        $defaults = array(
+                'numberposts' => 10, 'offset' => 0,
+                'category' => 0, 'orderby' => 'post_date',
+                'order' => 'DESC', 'include' => '',
+                'exclude' => '', 'meta_key' => '',
+                'meta_value' =>'', 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'draft, publish, future, pending, private',
+                'suppress_filters' => true
+        );
+        
+        $r = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
 
-        return $result ? $result : array();
+        $results = get_posts( $r );
+        
+        // Backward compatibility. Prior to 3.1 expected posts to be returned in array
+        if ( ARRAY_A == $output ){
+                foreach( $results as $key => $result ) {
+                        $results[$key] = (array) $result;
+                }
+                return $results ? $results : array();
+        }
+
+        return $results ? $results : false;
+
 }
 
 /**