From f015c58d278f0afb2820a68f2e4b1912983d081f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Nacin <nacin@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:11:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate get_profile() for get_the_author_meta(). fixes
 #10695, props scribu.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@13464 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/deprecated.php | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 wp-includes/user.php       | 28 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/deprecated.php b/wp-includes/deprecated.php
index a552829e49..f8034d8c1e 100644
--- a/wp-includes/deprecated.php
+++ b/wp-includes/deprecated.php
@@ -2429,4 +2429,21 @@ function automatic_feed_links( $add = true ) {
 		add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );
 	else
 		remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); // Just do this yourself in 3.0+
+}
+
+/**
+ * Retrieve user data based on field.
+ *
+ * @since 1.5.0
+ * @deprecated 3.0.0
+ * @deprecated Use get_the_author_meta()
+ * @see get_the_author_meta()
+ */
+function get_profile( $field, $user = false ) {
+	_deprecated_function(__FUNCTION__, '3.0', 'get_the_author_meta()' );
+	if ( $user ) {
+		$user = get_user_by( 'login', $user );
+		$user = $user->ID;
+	}
+	return get_the_author_meta( $field, $user );
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wp-includes/user.php b/wp-includes/user.php
index 3a63eba8f6..373bedfd69 100644
--- a/wp-includes/user.php
+++ b/wp-includes/user.php
@@ -139,34 +139,6 @@ function wp_authenticate_cookie($user, $username, $password) {
 	return $user;
 }
 
-/**
- * Retrieve user data based on field.
- *
- * Use get_profile() will make a database query to get the value of the table
- * column. The value might be cached using the query cache, but care should be
- * taken when using the function to not make a lot of queries for retrieving
- * user profile information.
- *
- * If the $user parameter is not used, then the user will be retrieved from a
- * cookie of the user. Therefore, if the cookie does not exist, then no value
- * might be returned. Sanity checking must be done to ensure that when using
- * get_profile() that empty/null/false values are handled and that something is
- * at least displayed.
- *
- * @since 1.5.0
- * @uses $wpdb WordPress database object to create queries.
- *
- * @param string $field User field to retrieve.
- * @param string $user Optional. User username.
- * @return string The value in the field.
- */
-function get_profile($field, $user = false) {
-	global $wpdb;
-	if ( !$user )
-		$user = esc_sql( $_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE] );
-	return $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT $field FROM $wpdb->users WHERE user_login = %s", $user) );
-}
-
 /**
  * Number of posts user has written.
  *