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wp_xmlrpc_server::pingback_extensions_getPingbacks( string $url ): array|IXR_Error

Since
1.5.0
Source
wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:7204
Retrieves an array of URLs that pingbacked the given URL.

Description

Compatibility

WordPress
since 1.5.0
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

$urlstring

Return value

array|IXR_Error

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_xmlrpc_server::pingback_extensions_getPingbacks() 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

Reaches the database via ->get_results().

Scaling
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
26–43

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 67.

Plugin surface
1 hook

Third-party callbacks on 'xmlrpc_call' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()called directly
  • querycontent queryget_post()called directly
  • sqldatabase query->get_results()called directly
  • optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below wp_xmlrpc_server::pingback_extensions_getPingbacks()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize 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 · 3 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always26do_action(), ->escape(), url_to_postid(), __(), ->pingback_error()
always33do_action(), ->escape(), url_to_postid(), get_post(), __(), ->pingback_error()
always39–43do_action(), ->escape(), url_to_postid(), get_post(), ->prepare(), ->get_results()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 67 instructions, 26–43 executed per call, 6 branches. The work does not change between versions.

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.

Hooks and filters fired · 1

One hook fires while wp_xmlrpc_server::pingback_extensions_getPingbacks() runs, in this order:

  1. do_action( xmlrpc_call )actionline 7208 (+4 into the body)

    Fires after the XML-RPC user has been authenticated but before the rest of the method logic begins.

Uses · 6

Source code

	public function pingback_extensions_getPingbacks( $url ) {		global $wpdb; 		/** This action is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php */		do_action( 'xmlrpc_call', 'pingback.extensions.getPingbacks', $url, $this ); 		$url = $this->escape( $url ); 		$post_id = url_to_postid( $url );		if ( ! $post_id ) {			// We aren't sure that the resource is available and/or pingback enabled.			return $this->pingback_error( 33, __( 'The specified target URL cannot be used as a target. It either does not exist, or it is not a pingback-enabled resource.' ) );		} 		$actual_post = get_post( $post_id, ARRAY_A ); 		if ( ! $actual_post ) {			// No such post = resource not found.			return $this->pingback_error( 32, __( 'The specified target URL does not exist.' ) );		} 		$comments = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT comment_author_url, comment_content, comment_author_IP, comment_type FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = %d", $post_id ) ); 		if ( ! $comments ) {			return array();		} 		$pingbacks = array();		foreach ( $comments as $comment ) {			if ( 'pingback' === $comment->comment_type ) {				$pingbacks[] = $comment->comment_author_url;			}		} 		return $pingbacks;	}

Changelog

Introduced in 1.5.0. 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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