WP_Comment::__get( string $name ): mixed
- Since
- 4.4.0
- Source
wp-includes/class-wp-comment.php:372
Description
If $name matches a post field, the comment post will be loaded and the post's value returned.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 4.4.0
- 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
$namestring- Property name.
Return value
mixed
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_Comment::__get() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Heavy
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 6–13
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Reaches the database via get_post().
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 14.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- querycontent query
get_post()called directly
Further down the call graph this can also reach hook, option, cache, serialize and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Comment::__get() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
!$name | 6 | none |
$name | 13 | get_post() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 14 | 6–13 | 1 | |
| 8.5 | 14 | 6–13 | 1 | |
| 8.4 | 14 | 6–13 | 1 | 3 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 17 | 9–16 | 1 | |
| 8.2 | 17 | 9–16 | 1 | |
| 8.1 | 17 | 9–16 | 1 | |
| 7.4 | 17 | 9–16 | 1 |
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 · 1
- get_post()Retrieves post data given a post ID or post object.
Source code
public function __get( $name ) { if ( in_array( $name, $this->post_fields, true ) ) { $post = get_post( $this->comment_post_ID ); return $post->$name; } }Changelog
Introduced in 4.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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