From b6a13bf8ab881666d722db3b29acbf2a78ca0097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: saxmatt <saxmatt@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:03:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for empty comment bug.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@1132 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php | 18 +++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php b/wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php
index 8a3db247f..10a86a70d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ add_filter('comment_excerpt', 'remove_slashes', 5);
 add_filter('comment_excerpt', 'convert_chars');
 
 function clean_url($url) {
-	$url = str_replace('http://url', '', $url);
+	if ('' == $url) return $url;
 	$url = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=&;,/:]|i', '', $url);
 	$url = str_replace(';//', '://', $url);
 	$url = (!strstr($url, '://')) ? 'http://'.$url : $url;
@@ -122,17 +122,13 @@ function comment_author_link() {
 	global $comment;
 	$url = apply_filters('comment_url', $comment->comment_author_url);
 	$author = apply_filters('comment_author', $comment->comment_author);
+	if (!$author) $author = 'Anonymous';
 
-	if (empty($url) && empty($email)) {
-		echo 'Anonymous';
-		return;
-	}
-
-	echo '<a href="';
-	if ($url) {
-		echo $url;
-	}
-	echo '" rel="external">' . $author . '</a>';
+	if (empty($url)) :
+		echo $author;
+	else:
+		echo "<a href='$url' rel='external'>$author</a>";
+	endif;
 }
 
 function comment_type($commenttxt = 'Comment', $trackbacktxt = 'Trackback', $pingbacktxt = 'Pingback') {