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wpdb::replace( string $table, array $data, string[]|string $format = null ): int|false

Since
3.0.0
Source
wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:2551
Replaces a row in the table or inserts it if it does not exist, based on a PRIMARY KEY or a UNIQUE index.

Description

A REPLACE works exactly like an INSERT, except that if an old row in the table has the same value as a new row for a PRIMARY KEY or a UNIQUE index, the old row is deleted before the new row is inserted.

Examples:

$wpdb->replace(
 'table',
 array(
 'ID' => 123,
 'column1' => 'foo',
 'column2' => 'bar',
 )
);
$wpdb->replace(
 'table',
 array(
 'ID' => 456,
 'column1' => 'foo',
 'column2' => 1337,
 ),
 array(
 '%d',
 '%s',
 '%d',
 )
);

Compatibility

WordPress
since 3.0.0
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

$tablestring
Table name.
$dataarray
Data to insert (in column => value pairs).
Both $data columns and $data values should be "raw" (neither should be SQL escaped).
A primary key or unique index is required to perform a replace operation.
Sending a null value will cause the column to be set to NULL - the corresponding format is ignored in this case.
$formatstring[]|stringoptional
An array of formats to be mapped to each of the value in $data.
If string, that format will be used for all of the values in $data.
A format is one of '%d', '%f', '%s' (integer, float, string).
If omitted, all values in $data will be treated as strings unless otherwise specified in wpdb::$field_types. Default null.Default: null

Return value

int|false
The number of rows affected, or false on error.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wpdb::replace() 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

Reaches the database via wpdb::replace().

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
10

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 10.

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

  • sqldatabase querywpdb::replace()this function does it

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always10->_insert_replace_helper()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 10 instructions, 10 executed per call, 0 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.

Uses · 1

Source code

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	public function replace( $table, $data, $format = null ) {		return $this->_insert_replace_helper( $table, $data, $format, 'REPLACE' );	}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.0.0. 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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