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WP_REST_Edit_Site_Export_Controller::export(): void|WP_Error

Since
5.9.0
Source
wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-edit-site-export-controller.php:75
Output a ZIP file with an export of the current templates and template parts from the site editor, and close the connection.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.9.0
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

void|WP_Error

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_REST_Edit_Site_Export_Controller::export() 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
Heavy

Reads or writes the filesystem via filesize().

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
11–39

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 43.

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

  • filesystemfilesystem accessfilesize()called directly
  • hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()one call below WP_REST_Edit_Site_Export_Controller::export()
  • optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below WP_REST_Edit_Site_Export_Controller::export()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize, transient and query. 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_REST_Edit_Site_Export_Controller::export() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
is_wp_error()11wp_generate_block_templates_export_file(), is_wp_error(), ->add_data()
!is_wp_error()39wp_generate_block_templates_export_file(), is_wp_error(), get_stylesheet(), basename(), header(), header(), filesize(), header(), flush(), readfile(), unlink(), exit()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev4311–391
8.54311–391
8.44311–3912 more instructions than PHP 8.3
8.34111–371
8.24111–371
8.14111–371
7.44111–371

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 function export() {		// Generate the export file.		$filename = wp_generate_block_templates_export_file(); 		if ( is_wp_error( $filename ) ) {			$filename->add_data( array( 'status' => 500 ) ); 			return $filename;		} 		$theme_name = basename( get_stylesheet() );		header( 'Content-Type: application/zip' );		header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $theme_name . '.zip' );		header( 'Content-Length: ' . filesize( $filename ) );		flush();		readfile( $filename );		unlink( $filename );		exit;	}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.9.0. 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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