From 3846bff484ba8d6150c258c6f021c5e98141bd5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryan <ryan@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:01:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add non-existent values instead of returning g false in
 update_post_meta(). Props filosofo. fixes #7018

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@7978 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-admin/includes/post.php | 18 +++++++++++-------
 wp-includes/post.php       |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/post.php b/wp-admin/includes/post.php
index d683a49bfa..44e7ff4406 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/post.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/post.php
@@ -389,21 +389,25 @@ function has_meta( $postid ) {
 
 }
 
-function update_meta( $mid, $mkey, $mvalue ) {
+function update_meta( $meta_id, $meta_key, $meta_value ) {
 	global $wpdb;
 
 	$protected = array( '_wp_attached_file', '_wp_attachment_metadata', '_wp_old_slug', '_wp_page_template' );
 
-	if ( in_array($mkey, $protected) )
+	if ( in_array($meta_key, $protected) )
 		return false;
 
-	$post_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT post_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_id = %d", $mid) );
+	$post_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT post_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_id = %d", $meta_id) );
 	wp_cache_delete($post_id, 'post_meta');
 
-	$mvalue = maybe_serialize( stripslashes( $mvalue ));
-	$mvalue = $wpdb->escape( $mvalue );
-	$mid = (int) $mid;
-	return $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare("UPDATE $wpdb->postmeta SET meta_key = %s, meta_value = %s WHERE meta_id = %d", $mkey, $mvalue, $mid) );
+	$meta_value = maybe_serialize( stripslashes( $meta_value ));
+	$meta_value = $wpdb->escape( $meta_value );
+	$meta_id = (int) $meta_id;
+	
+	$data  = compact( 'meta_key', 'meta_value' );
+	$where = compact( 'meta_id' );
+
+	return $wpdb->update( $wpdb->postmeta, $data, $where );
 }
 
 //
diff --git a/wp-includes/post.php b/wp-includes/post.php
index bae9f0182e..0f4449251f 100644
--- a/wp-includes/post.php
+++ b/wp-includes/post.php
@@ -577,8 +577,9 @@ function update_post_meta($post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value, $prev_value = '') {
 	// expected_slashed ($meta_key)
 	$meta_key = stripslashes($meta_key);
 
-	if ( ! $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT meta_key FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = %s AND post_id = %d", $meta_key, $post_id ) ) )
-		return false;
+	if ( ! $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT meta_key FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = %s AND post_id = %d", $meta_key, $post_id ) ) ) {
+		return add_post_meta($post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value);
+	}
 
 	$data  = compact( 'meta_value' );
 	$where = compact( 'meta_key', 'post_id' );