_sort_nav_menu_items( object $a, object $b ): int
- Since
- 3.0.0
- Source
wp-includes/deprecated.php:3912
Compatibility
Deprecated in WordPress 4.7.0. Use wp_list_sort()
- 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
$aobject- The first object to compare
$bobject- The second object to compare
Return value
int- -1, 0, or 1 if $a is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than $b.
Performance profile
How much work a call to _sort_nav_menu_items() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Trivial
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 11–35
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 42.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
do_action()one call below _sort_nav_menu_items()
Further down the call graph this can also reach query, option, cache, serialize and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost _sort_nav_menu_items() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 11–31 | _deprecated_function() |
!empty($_menu_item_sort_prop) && isset($a->_menu_item_sort_prop) && isset($b->_menu_item_sort_prop) | 32–35 | _deprecated_function(), strcmp() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 42 instructions, 11–35 executed per call, 7 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
- _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
Source code
function _sort_nav_menu_items( $a, $b ) { global $_menu_item_sort_prop; _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.7.0', 'wp_list_sort()' ); if ( empty( $_menu_item_sort_prop ) ) return 0; if ( ! isset( $a->$_menu_item_sort_prop ) || ! isset( $b->$_menu_item_sort_prop ) ) return 0; $_a = (int) $a->$_menu_item_sort_prop; $_b = (int) $b->$_menu_item_sort_prop; if ( $a->$_menu_item_sort_prop == $b->$_menu_item_sort_prop ) return 0; elseif ( $_a == $a->$_menu_item_sort_prop && $_b == $b->$_menu_item_sort_prop ) return $_a < $_b ? -1 : 1; else return strcmp( $a->$_menu_item_sort_prop, $b->$_menu_item_sort_prop );}Changelog
Introduced in 3.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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