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_mb_ord( string $string, "UTF-8"|null $encoding = null ): int|false

Since
7.1.0
Source
wp-includes/compat.php:211
Internal compat function to mimic mb_ord().

Compatibility

WordPress
since 7.1.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in 1 of the 5 tracked releases, added in 7.1.0, and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$stringstring
Return the code point at the start of this string.
$encoding"UTF-8"|nulloptional
Must be 'UTF-8' or null.Default: null

Return value

int|false
The Unicode code point for the first character of string or false on failure.

Performance profile

How much work a call to _mb_ord() 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
5–57

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 86.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What one call costs · 6 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always5–11none
is_string($string) && $string !== "" && $found_count !== 121–23_wp_scan_utf8()
is_string($string) && $string !== "" && $found_count === 127–35_wp_scan_utf8(), ord()
is_string($string) && $string !== "" && $found_count === 1 && $byte_length != 1 && $byte_length == 237–39_wp_scan_utf8(), ord(), ord()
is_string($string) && $string !== "" && $found_count === 1 && $byte_length != 1 && $byte_length != 2 && $byte_length == 346–48_wp_scan_utf8(), ord(), ord(), ord()
is_string($string) && $string !== "" && $found_count === 1 && $byte_length != 1 && $byte_length != 2 && $byte_length != 3 && $byte_length == 455–57_wp_scan_utf8(), ord(), ord(), ord(), ord()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 86 instructions, 5–57 executed per call, 9 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

  • _wp_scan_utf8()Finds spans of valid and invalid UTF-8 bytes in a given string.

Used by · 1

  • mb_ord()Compat function to mimic mb_ord().

Source code

function _mb_ord( $string, $encoding = null ) {	if ( ! is_string( $string ) || '' === $string || ( isset( $encoding ) && 'UTF-8' !== $encoding ) ) {		return false;	} 	$byte_length    = 0;	$invalid_length = 0;	$found_count    = _wp_scan_utf8( $string, $byte_length, $invalid_length, null, 1 ); 	if ( 1 !== $found_count ) {		return false;	} 	// These are valid code points, so no further validation is required.	$b0 = ord( $string[0] ); 	switch ( $byte_length ) {		case 1:			return $b0; 		case 2:			return (				( ( $b0 & 0x1F ) << 6 ) |				( ( ord( $string[1] ) & 0x3F ) )			); 		case 3:			return (				( ( $b0 & 0x0F ) << 12 ) |				( ( ord( $string[1] ) & 0x3F ) << 6 ) |				( ( ord( $string[2] ) & 0x3F ) )			); 		case 4:			return (				( ( $b0 & 0x07 ) << 18 ) |				( ( ord( $string[1] ) & 0x3F ) << 12 ) |				( ( ord( $string[2] ) & 0x3F ) << 6 ) |				( ( ord( $string[3] ) & 0x3F ) )			);	} 	return false;}

Changelog

Introduced in 7.1.0.

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 1 parsed release.

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