Services_JSON::strlen8( $str ): integer
- Source
wp-includes/class-json.php:945
Compatibility
Deprecated in WordPress 5.3.0. Use the PHP native JSON extension instead.
- 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
$str
Return value
integer- length
Performance profile
How much work a call to Services_JSON::strlen8() 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
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 10–13
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 4
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 15.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
4 places in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
do_action()one call below Services_JSON::strlen8()
Further down the call graph this can also reach option, cache, serialize, query and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost Services_JSON::strlen8() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 10 | _deprecated_function() |
| always | 13 | _deprecated_function(), mb_strlen() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 15 instructions, 10–13 executed per call, 1 branch. 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 · 2
- _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
- mb_strlen()Compat function to mimic mb_strlen().
Used by · 4
- Services_JSON::_encode()PRIVATE CODE that does the work of encodes an arbitrary variable into JSON format
- Services_JSON::decode()decodes a JSON string into appropriate variable
- Services_JSON::substr8()Returns part of a string, interpreting $start and $length as number of bytes.
- Services_JSON::utf82utf16()convert a string from one UTF-8 char to one UTF-16 char
Source code
function strlen8( $str ) { _deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' ); if ( $this->_mb_strlen ) { return mb_strlen( $str, "8bit" ); } return strlen( $str ); }Changelog
Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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