_get_meta_table( string $type ): string|false

Parameters

$typestring

Type of object metadata is for. Accepts 'blog', 'post', 'comment', 'term', 'user', or any other object type with an associated meta table.

Return

string|false

Metadata table name, or false if no metadata table exists

Used by · 8

• WP_Meta_Query::get_sql()Generates SQL clauses to be appended to a main query.
• add_metadata()Adds metadata for the specified object.
• delete_metadata()Deletes metadata for the specified object.
• delete_metadata_by_mid()Deletes metadata by meta ID.
• get_metadata_by_mid()Retrieves metadata by meta ID.
• update_meta_cache()Updates the metadata cache for the specified objects.
• update_metadata()Updates metadata for the specified object. If no value already exists for the specified object ID and metadata key, the metadata will be added.
• update_metadata_by_mid()Updates metadata by meta ID.

Source

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1290function _get_meta_table( $type ) {1291	global $wpdb;1292 1293	$table_name = $type . 'meta';1294 1295	if ( empty( $wpdb->$table_name ) ) {1296		return false;1297	}1298 1299	return $wpdb->$table_name;1300}

History

Introduced in 2.9.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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