Hi guys,

I use wordpress and by default the tags in wordpress are ABC ordered and not ordered according to the order they were written in. So a friend wrote this code for me:

PHP Code:

function get_the_better_term_list( $id = 0, $taxonomy = 'post_tag', $before = '', $sep = '', $after = '' ) {
    $id = (int) $id;
    if ( ! $id && ! in_the_loop() )
        return false;
    if ( !$id )
        $id = (int) $post->ID;
    $terms = wp_get_object_terms($id, $taxonomy, array('orderby' => 'term_order'));
    if ( is_wp_error( $terms ) )
        return $terms;
    if ( empty( $terms ) )
        return false;
    foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
        $link = get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy );
        if ( is_wp_error( $link ) )
            return $link;
        $term_links[] = '<a href="' . $link . '" rel="tag">' . $term->name . '</a>';
    }
    $term_links = apply_filters( "term_links-$taxonomy", $term_links );
    return $before . join( $sep, $term_links ) . $after;
}
function the_better_tags( $before = 'Tags: ', $sep = ', ', $after = '' ){
    echo get_the_better_term_list(0, 'post_tag', $before, $sep, $after);
} 


It's output is supposed to be displayed using this tag:

PHP Code:

<?php the_better_tags(); ?>

But it's not working, the area where the output is supposed to show is empty.

Can anyone see something wrong with this code?

I think

term_links-$taxonomy

was supposed to be

term_links->$taxonomy

No, changing term_links-$taxonomy to term_links->$taxonomy didn't make any difference.

$post is a global. To access it you need to explicitly declare

PHP Code:

global $post; 


I think.

There is a lot we can't see in the example you provide.

There is a user defined function in_the_loop() that must be returning a false value. I also notice the use of an object $post that is not declared in the global scope.

So in the top of the function get_the_better_term_list() add the line:
global $post;

None of that worked either, but don't worry about it, I found another solution to my original problem for which this code was written:

http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=2446 (last post)