wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php:173Starts the element output.
$outputstring$data_objectWP_Comment$depthintoptional0$argsarrayoptionalarray()$current_object_idintoptional0 public function start_el( &$output, $data_object, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $current_object_id = 0 ) { // Restores the more descriptive, specific name for use within this method. $comment = $data_object; ++$depth; $GLOBALS['comment_depth'] = $depth; $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; if ( ! empty( $args['callback'] ) ) { ob_start(); call_user_func( $args['callback'], $comment, $args, $depth ); $output .= ob_get_clean(); return; } if ( 'comment' === $comment->comment_type ) { add_filter( 'comment_text', array( $this, 'filter_comment_text' ), 40, 2 ); } if ( ( 'pingback' === $comment->comment_type || 'trackback' === $comment->comment_type ) && $args['short_ping'] ) { ob_start(); $this->ping( $comment, $depth, $args ); $output .= ob_get_clean(); } elseif ( 'html5' === $args['format'] ) { ob_start(); $this->html5_comment( $comment, $depth, $args ); $output .= ob_get_clean(); } else { ob_start(); $this->comment( $comment, $depth, $args ); $output .= ob_get_clean(); } if ( 'comment' === $comment->comment_type ) { remove_filter( 'comment_text', array( $this, 'filter_comment_text' ), 40 ); } }Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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