WP_Translation_File::create( string $file, string|null $filetype = null ): false|WP_Translation_File
- Since
- 6.5.0
- Source
wp-includes/l10n/class-wp-translation-file.php:84
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
$filestring- File name.
$filetypestring|nulloptional- File type. Default inferred from file name.Default:
null
Return value
false|WP_Translation_File
Performance profile
How much work a call to WP_Translation_File::create() 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
- 7–25
- 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 32.
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 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_Translation_File::create() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 7–17 | is_readable() |
is_readable() && $filetype === null | 16–25 | is_readable(), strrpos() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 32 | 7–25 | 6 | |
| 8.5 | 32 | 7–25 | 6 | |
| 8.4 | 32 | 7–25 | 6 | 4 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 36 | 7–29 | 6 | |
| 8.2 | 36 | 7–29 | 6 | |
| 8.1 | 36 | 7–29 | 6 | 1 more instruction than PHP 7.4 |
| 7.4 | 35 | 7–29 | 6 |
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
- WP_Translation_File_MO::__construct()
- WP_Translation_File_PHP::__construct()
Used by · 2
- WP_Translation_Controller::load_file()Loads a translation file for a given text domain.
- WP_Translation_File::transform()Creates a new WP_Translation_File instance for a given file.
Source code
public static function create( string $file, ?string $filetype = null ) { if ( ! is_readable( $file ) ) { return false; } if ( null === $filetype ) { $pos = strrpos( $file, '.' ); if ( false !== $pos ) { $filetype = substr( $file, $pos + 1 ); } } switch ( $filetype ) { case 'mo': return new WP_Translation_File_MO( $file ); case 'php': return new WP_Translation_File_PHP( $file ); default: return false; } }Changelog
Introduced in 6.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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