Ticket #9153: post.php-exclude_tree.patch

.php

@@ -3698 +3698 @@
                 'sort_column' => 'post_title', 'hierarchical' => 1,
                 'exclude' => array(), 'include' => array(),
                 'meta_key' => '', 'meta_value' => '',
-                'authors' => '', 'parent' => -1, 'exclude_tree' => '',
+                'authors' => '', 'parent' => -1, 'exclude_tree' => array(),
                 'number' => '', 'offset' => 0,
                 'post_type' => 'page', 'post_status' => 'publish',
         );
@@ -3881 +3881 @@
                 $pages = get_page_children($child_of, $pages);
 
         if ( !empty($exclude_tree) ) {
-                $exclude = (int) $exclude_tree;
-                $children = get_page_children($exclude, $pages);
-                $excludes = array();
-                foreach ( $children as $child )
-                        $excludes[] = $child->ID;
-                $excludes[] = $exclude;
+                $exclude = preg_split('/[\s,]+/',$exclude_tree);
+                foreach( $exclude as $id ) // Remember: works on a COPY
+                {
+                        $children = get_page_children($id, $pages);             
+                        foreach ( $children as $child )
+                                $exclude[] = $child->ID;
+                }
                 $num_pages = count($pages);
                 for ( $i = 0; $i < $num_pages; $i++ ) {
-                        if ( in_array($pages[$i]->ID, $excludes) )
+                        if ( in_array($pages[$i]->ID, $exclude) )
                                 unset($pages[$i]);
                 }
         }