[pLog-svn] Confusing method naming

[Mark Wu]

The same issue happened in getCategoryByName() in ArticleCategories() ... 

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> [mailto:plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net] On Behalf Of Jon Daley
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: [pLog-svn] Confusing method naming
> 
>  	Yeah, I wanted a getArticleByTitle the other day and 
> noticed it was using the slug instead.  It is probably 
> because they were added at different times.  Let's come up 
> with a standard, and rename all of the functions across the board.
>  	It doesn't seem like we can nicely deprecate 
> getBlogArticleByTitle, since that is a pretty good name, so I 
> think people will have to know that it now means title and 
> not slug, and change their custom code accordingly.  Unless 
> we really want to make sure to not break stuff, and come up 
> with a new function name for getbytitle.
> 
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Mark Wu wrote:
> 
> > Actually ...
> >
> > getBlogArticleByTitle() in articles.class.php means "get 
> blog article 
> > by post slug"
> >
> > getCategoryByName() in articlecategories.class.php means 
> "get article 
> > category by mangled name"
> >
> > It is really confusing :(
> >
> 
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