From 03d21f6606246c854d43a0a2235d0eb0567e2881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nacin <nacin@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:56:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] term_exists() @return correction. props johnbillion, fixes
 #19565.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@19600 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/taxonomy.php | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
index 5f2e25a5e..e6ec49ea5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
+++ b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
@@ -1431,8 +1431,6 @@ function &get_terms($taxonomies, $args = '') {
 /**
  * Check if Term exists.
  *
- * Returns the index of a defined term, or 0 (false) if the term doesn't exist.
- *
  * Formerly is_term(), introduced in 2.3.0.
  *
  * @package WordPress
@@ -1444,7 +1442,8 @@ function &get_terms($taxonomies, $args = '') {
  * @param int|string $term The term to check
  * @param string $taxonomy The taxonomy name to use
  * @param int $parent ID of parent term under which to confine the exists search.
- * @return mixed Get the term id or Term Object, if exists.
+ * @return mixed Returns 0 if the term does not exist. Returns the term ID if no taxonomy is specified
+ * 	and the term ID exists. Returns an array of the term ID and the taxonomy if the pairing exists.
  */
 function term_exists($term, $taxonomy = '', $parent = 0) {
 	global $wpdb;