Comments: Allow the caller of get_comments() to request comments with a specific comment_approved value.

This allows for a custom comment status to be queried directly overriding the status argument.

See #21101 props nbachiyski.


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@21570 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

wp-includes/comment.php

@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ class WP_Comment_Query {
 			'type' => '',
 			'user_id' => '',
 			'search' => '',
-			'count' => false
+			'count' => false,
+			// lets us override the status query var by explicitly setting a value for comment_approved
+			'comment_approved' => false,
 		);
 
 		$this->query_vars = wp_parse_args( $query_vars, $defaults );
@@ -255,6 +257,10 @@ class WP_Comment_Query {
 		else
 			$approved = "( comment_approved = '0' OR comment_approved = '1' )";
 
+		if ( false !== $comment_approved ) {
+			$approved = $wpdb->prepare( 'comment_approved = %s', $comment_approved );
+		}
+
 		$order = ( 'ASC' == strtoupper($order) ) ? 'ASC' : 'DESC';
 
 		if ( ! empty( $orderby ) ) {