carlos123

I think it might be a PHP thing not a WP at all.

PHP might evaluate and call functions in the code first before evaluating the code around a function and executing it which might explain why concatenating the_category() to a string doesn’t work as expected.

What the_category() spits out on it’s own gets output before the string I am concatenating it to.

Hmmm…

Carlos

It does appear that WP is doing something strange with the return values of functions like the_category().

If I assign the return value to a variable and then echo it…the output is likewise messed up.

If I do an “echo the_category(‘, ‘);” no problem. Weird.

I sure hope WP does not do any pre-processing because that’s going to throw a real kink in my efforts to use WP as a CMS.

Anybody?

Hmm…maybe the_category() doesn’t return anything and instead prints out something to the screen. Hmm…that might be it.

“echo the_category()” might work and spit out the correct thing to the screen because it’s in the right place in the code (essentially the echo part is ignored). Whereas if I move it elsewhere it spits out it’s thing there instead. Hmm…I think that might be it.

Carlos