wppaste
WordPress

WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::form( array $instance )

Since
2.8.0
Source
wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-recent-posts.php:163
Outputs the settings form for the Recent Posts widget.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 2.8.0
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

$instancearray
Current settings.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::form() 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
80–94

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 97.

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

  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()one call below WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::form()

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 · 4 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::form() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!isset($instance)80–82->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), checked(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e()
always86–88absint(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), checked(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e()
always86–88esc_attr(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), checked(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e()
isset($instance)92–94esc_attr(), absint(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), checked(), ->get_field_id(), ->get_field_name(), ->get_field_id(), _e()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev9580–9232 fewer instructions than PHP 8.5
8.59780–943
8.49780–943
8.39780–943
8.29780–943
8.19780–9431 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4
7.49880–953

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 · 6

  • esc_attr()Escaping for HTML attributes.
  • absint()Converts a value to non-negative integer.
  • _e()Displays translated text.
  • checked()Outputs the HTML checked attribute.
  • WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::get_field_id()
  • WP_Widget_Recent_Posts::get_field_name()

Source code

	public function form( $instance ) {		$title     = isset( $instance['title'] ) ? esc_attr( $instance['title'] ) : '';		$number    = isset( $instance['number'] ) ? absint( $instance['number'] ) : 5;		$show_date = isset( $instance['show_date'] ) ? (bool) $instance['show_date'] : false;		?>		<p>			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Title:' ); ?></label>			<input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'title' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" />		</p> 		<p>			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'number' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Number of posts to show:' ); ?></label>			<input class="tiny-text" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'number' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'number' ); ?>" type="number" step="1" min="1" value="<?php echo $number; ?>" size="3" />		</p> 		<p>			<input class="checkbox" type="checkbox"<?php checked( $show_date ); ?> id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'show_date' ); ?>" />			<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Display post date?' ); ?></label>		</p>		<?php	}

Changelog

Introduced in 2.8.0. 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.

About this page

Parsed data
Generated from the wordpress-develop 6.8.8 tag, from src/wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-recent-posts.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.
Corrections
Something wrong on this page? Report it and it gets fixed in the next regeneration.