From 65ce9a329fc5ccf403e419bbad4202d54391e38e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryan <ryan@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:21:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate idmode. fixes #2386

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.0@4234 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/template-functions-author.php | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php b/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
index 0838f5ff1c..1b11d54f56 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <?php
 
-function get_the_author($idmode = '') {
+function get_the_author($deprecated = '') {
 	global $authordata;
 	return apply_filters('the_author', $authordata->display_name);
 }
 
-function the_author($idmode = '', $echo = true) {
-	if ( $echo )
-		echo get_the_author($idmode);
-	return get_the_author($idmode);
+// Using echo = false is deprecated.  Use get_the_author instead.
+function the_author($deprecated = '', $deprecated_echo = true) {
+	if ( $deprecated_echo )
+		echo get_the_author();
+	return get_the_author();
 }
 
 function get_the_author_description() {
@@ -127,10 +128,10 @@ function the_author_posts() {
 }
 
 /* the_author_posts_link() requires no get_, use get_author_link() */
-function the_author_posts_link($idmode='') {
+function the_author_posts_link($deprecated = '') {
 	global $authordata;
 
-	echo '<a href="' . get_author_link(0, $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename) . '" title="' . sprintf(__("Posts by %s"), wp_specialchars(the_author($idmode, false))) . '">' . the_author($idmode, false) . '</a>';
+	echo '<a href="' . get_author_link(0, $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename) . '" title="' . sprintf(__("Posts by %s"), wp_specialchars(get_the_author())) . '">' . get_the_author() . '</a>';
 }
 
 function get_author_link($echo = false, $author_id, $author_nicename = '') {