sanitize_mime_type( string $mime_type ): string
- Since
- 3.1.3
- Source
wp-includes/formatting.php:5699
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 3.1.3
- 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
$mime_typestring- Mime type.
Return value
string- Sanitized mime type.
Performance profile
How much work a call to sanitize_mime_type() 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
- 9
- Plugin surface
- 1 hook
- 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. The body compiles to 9.
Third-party callbacks on 'sanitize_mime_type' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
apply_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 sanitize_mime_type() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 9 | apply_filters() |
Across PHP versions
| PHP | Compiled | Executed | Branches | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6-dev | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| 8.5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| 8.4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3 |
| 8.3 | 13 | 13 | 0 | |
| 8.2 | 13 | 13 | 0 | |
| 8.1 | 13 | 13 | 0 | |
| 7.4 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
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.
Hooks and filters fired · 1
One hook fires while sanitize_mime_type() runs, in this order:
- apply_filters( sanitize_mime_type )filterline 5709 (+10 into the body)
Filters a mime type following sanitization.
Uses · 1
- apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.
Source code
function sanitize_mime_type( $mime_type ) { $sani_mime_type = preg_replace( '/[^-+*.a-zA-Z0-9\/]/', '', $mime_type ); /** * Filters a mime type following sanitization. * * @since 3.1.3 * * @param string $sani_mime_type The sanitized mime type. * @param string $mime_type The mime type prior to sanitization. */ return apply_filters( 'sanitize_mime_type', $sani_mime_type, $mime_type );}Changelog
Introduced in 3.1.3. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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