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wpdb::strip_invalid_text_for_column( string $table, string $column, string $value ): string|WP_Error

Since
4.2.0
Source
wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:3752
Strips any invalid characters from the string for a given table and column.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.2.0
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.
$columnstring
Column name.
$valuestring
The text to check.

Return value

string|WP_Error
The converted string, or a WP_Error object if the conversion fails.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wpdb::strip_invalid_text_for_column() 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
6–34

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 38.

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 callbacksdo_action()one call below wpdb::strip_invalid_text_for_column()

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 wpdb::strip_invalid_text_for_column() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!is_string($value)6none
is_string($value)12->get_col_charset()
is_string($value) && is_wp_error()16->get_col_charset(), is_wp_error()
is_string($value) && !is_wp_error()32–34->get_col_charset(), is_wp_error(), ->get_col_length(), ->strip_invalid_text(), is_wp_error()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 38 instructions, 6–34 executed per call, 4 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 · 4

Source code

	public function strip_invalid_text_for_column( $table, $column, $value ) {		if ( ! is_string( $value ) ) {			return $value;		} 		$charset = $this->get_col_charset( $table, $column );		if ( ! $charset ) {			// Not a string column.			return $value;		} elseif ( is_wp_error( $charset ) ) {			// Bail on real errors.			return $charset;		} 		$data = array(			$column => array(				'value'   => $value,				'charset' => $charset,				'length'  => $this->get_col_length( $table, $column ),			),		); 		$data = $this->strip_invalid_text( $data );		if ( is_wp_error( $data ) ) {			return $data;		} 		return $data[ $column ]['value'];	}

Changelog

Introduced in 4.2.0. 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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