WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node( string $text ): string
- Since
- 6.6.0
- Source
wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-decoder.php:143
Description
Text nodes appear in HTML DATA sections, which are the text segments inside and around tags, excepting SCRIPT and STYLE elements (and some others), whose inner text is not decoded. Use this function to read the decoded value of such a text span in an HTML document.
Example:
'“😄”' === WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node( '“😄”' );Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 6.6.0
- 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
$textstring- Text containing raw and non-decoded text node to decode.
Return value
string- Decoded UTF-8 value of given text node.
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node() 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
- 7
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 1
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. The body compiles to 7.
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 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_HTML_Decoder::decode_text_node() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 7 | ::decode() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 7 instructions, 7 executed per call, 0 branches. 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 · 1
- static::decode()
Used by · 1
- WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::get_modifiable_text()Returns the modifiable text for a matched token, or an empty string.
Changelog
Introduced in 6.6.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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