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WP_Font_Utils::sanitize_font_family( string $font_family ): string

Since
6.5.0
Source
wp-includes/fonts/class-wp-font-utils.php:60
Sanitizes and formats font family names.

Description

  • Applies sanitize_text_field.
  • Adds surrounding quotes to names containing any characters that are not alphabetic or dashes.

It follows the recommendations from the CSS Fonts Module Level 4.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 6.5.0
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

$font_familystring
Font family name(s), comma-separated.

Return value

string
Sanitized and formatted font family name(s).

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_Font_Utils::sanitize_font_family() 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
3–19

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 33.

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

  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()one call below WP_Font_Utils::sanitize_font_family()

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 · 3 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always3none
!$output13sanitize_text_field(), ::maybe_add_quotes()
$output18–19sanitize_text_field(), explode()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev333–195
8.5333–195
8.4333–1956 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3
8.3393–255
8.2393–255
8.1393–255
7.4393–255

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 · 3

Source code

	public static function sanitize_font_family( $font_family ) {		if ( ! $font_family ) {			return '';		} 		$output          = sanitize_text_field( $font_family );		$formatted_items = array();		if ( str_contains( $output, ',' ) ) {			$items = explode( ',', $output );			foreach ( $items as $item ) {				$formatted_item = self::maybe_add_quotes( $item );				if ( ! empty( $formatted_item ) ) {					$formatted_items[] = $formatted_item;				}			}			return implode( ', ', $formatted_items );		}		return self::maybe_add_quotes( $output );	}

Changelog

Introduced in 6.5.0. 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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