listing comments in wordpress

[cybershot]

I am trying to get the recent comments from wordpress but I keep getting an error

$recent_comments = get_comments( array(

'number'    => 5,

'status'    => 'approve'

) );

foreach ( $recent_comments as $comment) {

echo $comment;

}

I am getting this error and don’t know what it means

Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

[Bob]

Does the error show anything else? Maybe on what line the error is found? Usually it does that I think, maybe you can show us that line of code as well?

[chrisburton]

@cybershot

$args = array(

'status' => 'approve',

'number' => '5',

);

$comments = get_comments($args);

foreach($comments as $comment) :

echo($comment->comment_author . '
' . $comment->comment_content);

endforeach;

[cybershot]

yes that worked christopher. I don’t recognize this kind of code

echo($comment->comment_author . '
' . $comment->comment_content);

I have never seen the code inside brackets for an echo before. So this is interesting.

[chrisburton]

What the above code will show is who wrote the comment and then display the comment on the next line. However, I posted a link to what you don’t understand as it explains it more easily than I could.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

[kalps1982]

Its simple, you are trying to print STDClass object to string. Normally object class can not be converted to string as it has properties assigned to it.

i.e.

$str = “this is string”;
$object = new stdClass();
$object->test = “string in object”.

If you do

echo $str; // it would print “this is string”

but if you do

echo $object; it would put error as you are getting on in comment list.

but if you do

echo $object->test; // it would print “string in object”

I hope you understood what i explained. You can also check how to get comments from wordpress with get_comments at

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments

here they have mentioned “(Array) Comment objects with the following indexes:”

Regards,
Kalpesh Patel (http://www.think-1st.com)

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