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filter_block_kses_value( string[]|string $value, array[]|string $allowed_html, string[] $allowed_protocols = array(), array $block_context = null ): string[]|string

Since
5.3.1, 6.5.5
Source
wp-includes/blocks.php:2132
Filters and sanitizes a parsed block attribute value to remove non-allowable HTML.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 6.5.5
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

$valuestring[]|string
The attribute value to filter.
$allowed_htmlarray[]|string
An array of allowed HTML elements and attributes, or a context name such as 'post'. See wp_kses_allowed_html() for the list of accepted context names.
$allowed_protocolsstring[]optional
Array of allowed URL protocols.
Defaults to the result of wp_allowed_protocols().Default: array()
$block_contextarrayoptional
The block the attribute belongs to, in parsed block array format.Default: null

Return value

string[]|string
The filtered and sanitized result.

Performance profile

How much work a call to filter_block_kses_value() 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
Light

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Scales with input

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

Instructions
9–14

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 51.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
2

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

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always9–10none
!is_array($value) && is_string($value)14wp_kses()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 51 instructions, 9–14 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 · 3

Used by · 2

  • filter_block_kses()Filters and sanitizes a parsed block to remove non-allowable HTML from block attribute values.
  • filter_block_kses_value()Filters and sanitizes a parsed block attribute value to remove non-allowable HTML.

Source code

function filter_block_kses_value( $value, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols = array(), $block_context = null ) {	if ( is_array( $value ) ) {		foreach ( $value as $key => $inner_value ) {			$filtered_key   = filter_block_kses_value( $key, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols, $block_context );			$filtered_value = filter_block_kses_value( $inner_value, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols, $block_context ); 			if ( isset( $block_context['blockName'] ) && 'core/template-part' === $block_context['blockName'] ) {				$filtered_value = filter_block_core_template_part_attributes( $filtered_value, $filtered_key, $allowed_html );			}			if ( $filtered_key !== $key ) {				unset( $value[ $key ] );			} 			$value[ $filtered_key ] = $filtered_value;		}	} elseif ( is_string( $value ) ) {		return wp_kses( $value, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols );	} 	return $value;}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.3.1. 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.

6.5.5
Added the $block_context parameter.from the docblock
5.3.1
Introduced.from the docblock

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