WP_Ability_Category::__construct( string $slug, array $args )
- Since
- 6.9.0
- Source
wp-includes/abilities-api/class-wp-ability-category.php:76
Description
Do not use this constructor directly. Instead, use the wp_register_ability_category() function.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 6.9.0
- PHP
- 7.4–8.6-dev
- 6.7.7
- 6.8.8
- 6.9.7
- 7.0.4
- 7.1.0
Present in 3 of the 5 tracked releases, added in 6.9.0, and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.
Parameters
$slugstring- The unique slug for the ability category.
$argsarray
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_Ability_Category::__construct() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Light
- Scaling
- Scales with input
- Instructions
- 11–14
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 1
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 55.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
do_action()one call below WP_Ability_Category::__construct()
Further down the call graph this can also reach option, cache, serialize, query and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Ability_Category::__construct() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
empty($slug) | 11 | __() |
!empty($slug) | 13–14 | ->prepare_properties() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 55 | 11–14 | 4 | |
| 8.5 | 55 | 11–14 | 4 | |
| 8.4 | 55 | 11–14 | 4 | 3 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 58 | 11–14 | 4 | |
| 8.2 | 58 | 11–14 | 4 | |
| 8.1 | 58 | 11–14 | 4 | |
| 7.4 | 58 | 11–14 | 4 |
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 · 5
- __()Retrieves the translation of $text.
- _doing_it_wrong()Marks something as being incorrectly called.
- esc_html()Escaping for HTML blocks.
- InvalidArgumentException::__construct()
- WP_Ability_Category::prepare_properties()Prepares and validates the properties used to instantiate the ability category.
Used by · 1
- WP_Ability_Categories_Registry::register()Registers a new ability category.
Source code
public function __construct( string $slug, array $args ) { if ( empty( $slug ) ) { throw new InvalidArgumentException( __( 'The ability category slug cannot be empty.' ) ); } $this->slug = $slug; $properties = $this->prepare_properties( $args ); foreach ( $properties as $property_name => $property_value ) { if ( ! property_exists( $this, $property_name ) ) { _doing_it_wrong( __METHOD__, sprintf( /* translators: %s: Property name. */ __( 'Property "%1$s" is not a valid property for ability category "%2$s". Please check the %3$s class for allowed properties.' ), '<code>' . esc_html( $property_name ) . '</code>', '<code>' . esc_html( $this->slug ) . '</code>', '<code>' . __CLASS__ . '</code>' ), '6.9.0' ); continue; } $this->$property_name = $property_value; } }Changelog
Introduced in 6.9.0. Unchanged from 6.9.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 3 parsed releases.
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