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WP_HTML_Processor::get_token_name(): string|null

Since
6.6.0
Source
wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php:5233
Returns the node name represented by the token.

Description

This matches the DOM API value nodeName. Some values are static, such as #text for a text node, while others are dynamically generated from the token itself.

Dynamic names:

  • Uppercase tag name for tag matches.
  • html for DOCTYPE declarations.

Note that if the Tag Processor is not matched on a token then this function will return null, either because it hasn't yet found a token or because it reached the end of the document without matching a token.

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.

Return value

string|null
Name of the matched token.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_HTML_Processor::get_token_name() 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

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
8–9

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 12.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
20

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

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_HTML_Processor::get_token_name() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!->is_virtual()8->is_virtual(), ::get_token_name()
->is_virtual()9->is_virtual()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev117–911 fewer instruction than PHP 8.5
8.5128–91
8.4128–91
8.3128–91
8.2128–91
8.1128–911 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4
7.4138–101

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 · 2

Used by · 20

Show all 20

Source code

	public function get_token_name(): ?string {		return $this->is_virtual()			? $this->current_element->token->node_name			: parent::get_token_name();	}

Changelog

Introduced in 6.6.0. 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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