WP_Customize_Section::__construct( WP_Customize_Manager $manager, string $id, array $args = array() )

Description

Compatibility

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

Parameters

$managerWP_Customize_Manager

Customizer bootstrap instance.

$idstring

A specific ID of the section.

$argsarrayoptional

Array of properties for the new Section object. Default empty array.Default: array()

• $priorityintdefault: 160

  Priority of the section, defining the display order of panels and sections.

• $panelstringdefault: empty

  The panel this section belongs to (if any).

• $capabilitystring

  Capability required for the section. Default 'edit_theme_options' @type string|string[] $theme_supports Theme features required to support the section.

• $titlestring

  Title of the section to show in UI.

• $descriptionstring

  Description to show in the UI.

• $typestring

  Type of the section.

• $active_callbackcallable

  Active callback.

• $description_hiddenbooldefault: false

  Hide the description behind a help icon, instead of inline above the first control.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_Customize_Section::__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

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling

Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions

27–33

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 39.

Plugin surface

None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by

2

2 places in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

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

Used by · 2

• WP_Customize_Manager::add_section()Adds a customize section.
• WP_Customize_New_Menu_Section::__construct()Constructor.

Source code

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173	public function __construct( $manager, $id, $args = array() ) {174		$keys = array_keys( get_object_vars( $this ) );175		foreach ( $keys as $key ) {176			if ( isset( $args[ $key ] ) ) {177				$this->$key = $args[ $key ];178			}179		}180 181		$this->manager = $manager;182		$this->id      = $id;183		if ( empty( $this->active_callback ) ) {184			$this->active_callback = array( $this, 'active_callback' );185		}186		self::$instance_count += 1;187		$this->instance_number = self::$instance_count;188 189		$this->controls = array(); // Users cannot customize the $controls array.190	}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.4.0. 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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