From 5b8b047b791247b2b9c032030adc2c8c6f1df1f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryan <ryan@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:56:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add the_author_aim() to deprecated.  see #8776

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@11269 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/deprecated.php | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wp-includes/deprecated.php b/wp-includes/deprecated.php
index 1e2f7c2462..a6d58641fd 100644
--- a/wp-includes/deprecated.php
+++ b/wp-includes/deprecated.php
@@ -1598,6 +1598,34 @@ function the_author_msn() {
 	the_author_meta('msn');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Retrieve the AIM address of the author of the current post.
+ *
+ * @since 1.5
+ * @deprecated 2.8
+ * @uses $authordata The current author's DB object.
+ * @return string The author's AIM address.
+ * @deprecated Use the_author_meta('aim')
+ */
+function get_the_author_aim() {
+	_deprecated_function(__FUNCTION__, '2.8', 'get_the_author_meta(\'aim\')' );
+	return get_the_author_meta('aim');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Display the AIM address of the author of the current post.
+ *
+ * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_aim
+ * @since 0.71
+ * @deprecated 2.8
+ * @see get_the_author_aim()
+ * @deprecated Use the_author_meta('aim')
+ */
+function the_author_aim() {
+	_deprecated_function(__FUNCTION__, '2.8', 'the_author_meta(\'aim\')' );
+	the_author_meta('aim');
+}
+
 /**
  * Retrieve the specified author's preferred display name.
  *