Tonya Mork 9aa777d9f4 Comments: Fix fatal error when get_comment_author() receives an object with no comment_id.
[58335] introduced `(string)` type casting of the passed in `$comment_id` value. If `$comment_id` is a scalar, it works as expected. But if it's an `object`, the following fatal error is thrown:

{{{
Object of class WP_Comment could not be converted to string
}}}

This fatal error happens when the incoming `$comment_id` is an instance of `WP_Comment` (or any object) without a `comment_ID` (empty). 

This changeset adds tests to demonstrate the fatal error and validate the fix.

It fixes the fatal error by restructuring the ternary checks into an `if/elseif/else` structure for the 3 paths:

- When `$comment->comment_ID` is not empty, then it uses the property.
- When `$comment_id` is scalar, then it type casts it to a `string`.
- Else, the default is an empty `string`.

Follow-up to [58335], [41127], [52818].

Props ambrosiawt, hellofromTonya, jorbin, mukesh27, SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes #61681.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@58755 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
2024-07-18 15:08:01 +00:00
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