get_term_to_edit( int|object $id, string $taxonomy ): string|int|null|WP_Error
- Since
- 2.3.0
- Source
wp-includes/taxonomy.php:1250
Description
Return value is sanitize_term() and usage is for sanitizing the term for editing. Function is for contextual and simplicity.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 2.3.0
- 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
$idint|object- Term ID or object.
$taxonomystring- Taxonomy name.
Return value
string|int|null|WP_Error- Will return empty string if $term is not an object.
Performance profile
How much work a call to get_term_to_edit() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Heavy
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 12–19
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Reaches the database via get_term().
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 21.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- querycontent query
get_term()called directly - hookthird-party callbacks
apply_filters()one call below get_term_to_edit()
Further down the call graph this can also reach option, cache, serialize and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.
What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost get_term_to_edit() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 12–14 | get_term(), is_wp_error() |
!is_wp_error() && is_object($term) | 19 | get_term(), is_wp_error(), sanitize_term() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 21 instructions, 12–19 executed per call, 2 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
- get_term()Gets all term data from database by term ID.
- is_wp_error()Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.
- sanitize_term()Sanitizes all term fields.
Source code
function get_term_to_edit( $id, $taxonomy ) { $term = get_term( $id, $taxonomy ); if ( is_wp_error( $term ) ) { return $term; } if ( ! is_object( $term ) ) { return ''; } return sanitize_term( $term, $taxonomy, 'edit' );}Changelog
Introduced in 2.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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