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PHPMailer::encodeFile( string $path, string $encoding = self::ENCODING_BASE64 ): string

Source
wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php:3641
Encode a file attachment in requested format.

Description

Returns an empty string on failure.

Compatibility

WordPress
core
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$pathstring
The full path to the file
$encodingstringoptional
The encoding to use; one of 'base64', '7bit', '8bit', 'binary', 'quoted-printable'Default: self::ENCODING_BASE64

Return value

string

Performance profile

How much work a call to PHPMailer::encodeFile() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Reads or writes the filesystem via file_get_contents().

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
16–22

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 53.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • filesystemfilesystem accessfile_get_contents()called directly

What one call costs · 3 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost PHPMailer::encodeFile() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!::fileIsAccessible()16::fileIsAccessible(), ::lang()
::fileIsAccessible() && $file_buffer !== false18::fileIsAccessible(), file_get_contents(), ->encodeString()
::fileIsAccessible() && $file_buffer === false22::fileIsAccessible(), file_get_contents(), ::lang()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 53 instructions, 16–22 executed per call, 3 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Uses · 6

  • static::fileIsAccessible()
  • \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception::__construct()
  • \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer::lang()
  • \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer::encodeString()
  • \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer::setError()
  • \PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer::edebug()

Source code

    protected function encodeFile($path, $encoding = self::ENCODING_BASE64)    {        try {            if (!static::fileIsAccessible($path)) {                throw new Exception(self::lang('file_open') . $path, self::STOP_CONTINUE);            }            $file_buffer = file_get_contents($path);            if (false === $file_buffer) {                throw new Exception(self::lang('file_open') . $path, self::STOP_CONTINUE);            }            $file_buffer = $this->encodeString($file_buffer, $encoding);             return $file_buffer;        } catch (Exception $exc) {            $this->setError($exc->getMessage());            $this->edebug($exc->getMessage());            if ($this->exceptions) {                throw $exc;            }             return '';        }    }

Changelog

Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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