wp-includes/class-wp-date-query.php:188Recursive-friendly query sanitizer.
$queriesarray$parent_queryarrayoptionalnullarray public function sanitize_query( $queries, $parent_query = null ) { $cleaned_query = array(); $defaults = array( 'column' => 'post_date', 'compare' => '=', 'relation' => 'AND', ); // Numeric keys should always have array values. foreach ( $queries as $qkey => $qvalue ) { if ( is_numeric( $qkey ) && ! is_array( $qvalue ) ) { unset( $queries[ $qkey ] ); } } // Each query should have a value for each default key. Inherit from the parent when possible. foreach ( $defaults as $dkey => $dvalue ) { if ( isset( $queries[ $dkey ] ) ) { continue; } $queries[ $dkey ] = $parent_query[ $dkey ] ?? $dvalue; } // Validate the dates passed in the query. if ( $this->is_first_order_clause( $queries ) ) { $this->validate_date_values( $queries ); } // Sanitize the relation parameter. $queries['relation'] = $this->sanitize_relation( $queries['relation'] ); foreach ( $queries as $key => $q ) { if ( ! is_array( $q ) || in_array( $key, $this->time_keys, true ) ) { // This is a first-order query. Trust the values and sanitize when building SQL. $cleaned_query[ $key ] = $q; } else { // Any array without a time key is another query, so we recurse. $cleaned_query[] = $this->sanitize_query( $q, $queries ); } } return $cleaned_query; }Introduced in 4.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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