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wp_kses_split( string $content, array[]|string $allowed_html, string[] $allowed_protocols ): string

Since
1.0.0, 6.6.0
Source
wp-includes/kses.php:979
Searches for HTML tags, no matter how malformed.

Description

It also matches stray > characters.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 6.6.0
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

$contentstring
Content 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[]
Array of allowed URL protocols.

Return value

string
Content with fixed HTML tags

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_kses_split() 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
13

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 13.

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always13preg_replace_callback()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 13 instructions, 13 executed per call, 0 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.

Used by · 1

  • wp_kses()Filters text content and strips out disallowed HTML.

Source code

function wp_kses_split( $content, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols ) {	global $pass_allowed_html, $pass_allowed_protocols; 	$pass_allowed_html      = $allowed_html;	$pass_allowed_protocols = $allowed_protocols; 	$token_pattern = <<<REGEX~	(                      # Detect comments of various flavors before attempting to find tags.		(<!--.*?(-->|$))   #  - Normative HTML comments.		|		</[^a-zA-Z][^>]*>  #  - Closing tags with invalid tag names.		|		<![^>]*>           #  - Invalid markup declaration nodes. Not all invalid nodes		                   #    are matched so as to avoid breaking legacy behaviors.	)	|	(<[^>]*(>|$)|>)        # Tag-like spans of text.~xREGEX;	return preg_replace_callback( $token_pattern, '_wp_kses_split_callback', $content );}

Changelog

Introduced in 1.0.0. 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.

6.6.0
Recognize additional forms of invalid HTML which convert into comments.from the docblock
1.0.0
Introduced.from the docblock

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