Revert r46628, r46639 for now "Don't allow padding parser functions to be used to...

Doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to add this special-case restriction at this time, and there appear to be ways to work around it anyway, so let's not play the arms race. :)

diff --git a/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php b/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php
index eaf0db0..b208076 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php
+++ b/includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php
@@ -473,11 +473,6 @@ class CoreParserFunctions {
        static function pad( $string, $length, $padding = '0', $direction = STR_PAD_RIGHT ) {
                $lengthOfPadding = mb_strlen( $padding );               
                if ( $lengthOfPadding == 0 ) return $string;
-
-               // Thwart attempts to use this function to truncate strings.
-               //  We don't want people implementing ParserFunctions in template,
-               //  for performance and usability reasons.
-               if ($lengthOfPadding > $length && $string == '') return $string;
                
                # The remaining length to add counts down to 0 as padding is added
                $length = min( $length, 500 ) - mb_strlen( $string );