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wp_kses_hair_parse( string $attr ): array|false

Since
4.2.3
Source
wp-includes/kses.php:1596
Builds an attribute list from string containing attributes.

Description

Does not modify input. May return "evil" output.
In case of unexpected input, returns false instead of stripping things.

Based on wp_kses_hair() but does not return a multi-dimensional array.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.2.3
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

$attrstring
Attribute list from HTML element to closing HTML element tag.

Return value

array|false
List of attributes found in $attr. Returns false on failure.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_kses_hair_parse() 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
4–13

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 15.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

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

What it touches

  • regexregular expression over the whole inputpreg_match_all()called directly

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always4–7none
$attr !== ""13preg_match_all()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev154–132
8.5154–132
8.4154–1323 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3
8.3184–162
8.2184–162
8.1184–162
7.4184–162

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.

Used by · 1

Source code

function wp_kses_hair_parse( $attr ) {	if ( '' === $attr ) {		return array();	} 	$regex =		'(?:				[_a-zA-Z][-_a-zA-Z0-9:.]* # Attribute name.			|				\[\[?[^\[\]]+\]\]?        # Shortcode in the name position implies unfiltered_html.		)		(?:                               # Attribute value.			\s*=\s*                       # All values begin with "=".			(?:				"[^"]*"                   # Double-quoted.			|				\'[^\']*\'                # Single-quoted.			|				[^\s"\']+                 # Non-quoted.				(?:\s|$)                  # Must have a space.			)		|			(?:\s|$)                      # If attribute has no value, space is required.		)		\s*                               # Trailing space is optional except as mentioned above.		'; 	/*	 * Although it is possible to reduce this procedure to a single regexp,	 * we must run that regexp twice to get exactly the expected result.	 *	 * Note: do NOT remove the `x` modifiers as they are essential for the above regex!	 */ 	$validation = "/^($regex)+$/x";	$extraction = "/$regex/x"; 	if ( 1 === preg_match( $validation, $attr ) ) {		preg_match_all( $extraction, $attr, $attrarr );		return $attrarr[0];	} else {		return false;	}}

Changelog

Introduced in 4.2.3. 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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