get_comment_author_url_link( string $link_text = '', string $before = '', string $after = '', int|WP_Comment $comment = 0 ): string

Description

Compatibility

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$link_textstringoptional

The text to display instead of the comment author's email address. Default empty.Default: ''

$beforestringoptional

The text or HTML to display before the email link.
Default empty.Default: ''

$afterstringoptional

The text or HTML to display after the email link.
Default empty.Default: ''

$commentint|WP_Commentoptional

Comment ID or WP_Comment object.
Default is the current comment.Default: 0

Return value

string

The HTML link between the $before and $after parameters.

Performance profile

How much work a call to get_comment_author_url_link() 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

35–39

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 40.

Plugin surface

1 hook

Third-party callbacks on 'get_comment_author_url_link' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by

1

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

What it touches

• hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()called directly

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

Hooks and filters fired · 1

One hook fires while get_comment_author_url_link() runs, in this order:

1. 1
   apply_filters( get_comment_author_url_link )filterline 457 (+24 into the body)

   Filters the comment author's returned URL link.

Uses · 3

• get_comment_author_url()Retrieves the URL of the author of the current comment, not linked.
• str_ends_with()Polyfill for `str_ends_with()` function added in PHP 8.0.
• apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

Used by · 1

• comment_author_url_link()Displays the HTML link of the URL of the author of the current comment.

Source code

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433function get_comment_author_url_link( $link_text = '', $before = '', $after = '', $comment = 0 ) {434	$comment_author_url = get_comment_author_url( $comment );435 436	$display = ( '' !== $link_text ) ? $link_text : $comment_author_url;437	$display = str_replace( 'http://www.', '', $display );438	$display = str_replace( 'http://', '', $display );439 440	if ( str_ends_with( $display, '/' ) ) {441		$display = substr( $display, 0, -1 );442	}443 444	$comment_author_url_link = $before . sprintf(445		'<a href="%1$s" rel="external">%2$s</a>',446		$comment_author_url,447		$display448	) . $after;449 450	/**451	 * Filters the comment author's returned URL link.452	 *453	 * @since 1.5.0454	 *455	 * @param string $comment_author_url_link The HTML-formatted comment author URL link.456	 */457	return apply_filters( 'get_comment_author_url_link', $comment_author_url_link );458}

Changelog

Introduced in 1.5.0. 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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