WP_Posts_List_Table::get_edit_link( string[] $args, string $link_text, string $css_class = '' ): string
- Since
- 4.4.0
- Source
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php:258
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
$argsstring[]- Associative array of URL parameters for the link.
$link_textstring- Link text.
$css_classstringoptional- Class attribute. Default empty string.Default:
''
Return value
string- The formatted link string.
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_Posts_List_Table::get_edit_link() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Trivial
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 24–34
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 2
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 34.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
2 places in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
apply_filters()one call below WP_Posts_List_Table::get_edit_link()
Further down the call graph this can also reach option, cache, serialize, query and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Posts_List_Table::get_edit_link() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
empty($css_class) | 24 | add_query_arg(), esc_url() |
!empty($css_class) | 33–34 | add_query_arg(), esc_attr(), esc_url() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 34 | 24–34 | 2 | |
| 8.5 | 34 | 24–34 | 2 | |
| 8.4 | 34 | 24–34 | 2 | Different branch profile from PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 34 | 23–34 | 2 | |
| 8.2 | 34 | 23–34 | 2 | |
| 8.1 | 34 | 23–34 | 2 | |
| 7.4 | 34 | 23–34 | 2 |
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
- add_query_arg()Retrieves a modified URL query string.
- esc_attr()Escaping for HTML attributes.
- esc_url()Checks and cleans a URL.
Used by · 2
- WP_Posts_List_Table::column_author()Handles the post author column output.
- WP_Posts_List_Table::column_default()Handles the default column output.
Source code
protected function get_edit_link( $args, $link_text, $css_class = '' ) { $url = add_query_arg( $args, 'edit.php' ); $class_html = ''; $aria_current = ''; if ( ! empty( $css_class ) ) { $class_html = sprintf( ' class="%s"', esc_attr( $css_class ) ); if ( 'current' === $css_class ) { $aria_current = ' aria-current="page"'; } } return sprintf( '<a href="%s"%s%s>%s</a>', esc_url( $url ), $class_html, $aria_current, $link_text ); }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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