Suppose you want to show the recent comments for a WordPress blog. There is a ready made WordPress function for that.
\nIt is –<\/p>\n
get_comments()<\/p>\n
This function will return all the comments posted till date as an array of objects.
\nEach object contains the following fields-<\/p>\n
[comment_ID]
\n[comment_post_ID]
\n[comment_author]
\n[comment_author_email]
\n[comment_author_url]
\n[comment_author_IP]
\n[comment_date]
\n[comment_date_gmt]
\n[comment_content]
\n[comment_karma]
\n[comment_approved]
\n[comment_agent]
\n[comment_type]
\n[comment_parent]
\n[user_id]<\/p>\n
For example if you want all the Comments listed your code can be something as below –<\/p>\n
\n$comments = get_comments();\nforeach($comments as $eachComment){\n echo $eachComment->comment_content;\n echo 'Filter the output according to parameters<\/u><\/h3>\n
get_comments() accepts parameters as an array. Below are some example –<\/p>\n
Show a number of latest comments<\/u><\/h3>\n
Latest 5 comments – get_comments(array(“number”=>5));<\/p>\n
Show a number of comments starting from a certain position<\/u><\/h3>\n
Latest 5 comments from position 1 – get_comments(array(“number”=>5,”offset”=>1));<\/p>\n
The above condition will show 5 comments starting from the 2nd latest comment. The offset starts from value 0.<\/p>\n
Show comments according to status<\/u><\/h3>\n
Approved – get_comments(array(“status”=>”approve”));
\nHold- get_comments(array(“status”=>”hold”));
\nSpam- get_comments(array(“status”=>”spam”));
\nTrash- get_comments(array(“status”=>”trash”));<\/p>\n
Show comments according in a specific order<\/u><\/h3>\n
Ascending – get_comments(array(“order”=>”ASC”));
\nDescending – get_comments(array(“order”=>”DESC”));<\/p>\n
If only order parameter is there, it will order by “comment_date_gmt” field.
\nHowever if we want we can also include orderby parameter. Like –<\/p>\n
Order by comment_author ASC – get_comments(array(“orderby”=>”comment_author”,”order”=>”ASC”));<\/p>\n
Like this all the fields listed above that we get when we call get_comments() can be used as the value of “orderby” parameter.<\/p>\n
Show the number of comments<\/u><\/h3>\n
get_comments(array(“count”=>”1”))<\/p>\n
The above code will return a value which is the number of comments posted.
\nAgain this can be used along with other parameters to know the count of certain type of comments. Like –<\/p>\n
Number of approved comments – get_comments(array(“count”=>”2″,”status”=>”approve”))<\/p>\n
Now play around with combination of various parameters and see what output you get \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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