wp-includes/class-wpdb.php:4078Determines whether the database or WPDB supports a particular feature.
$db_capstringbool public function has_cap( $db_cap ) { $db_version = $this->db_version(); $db_server_info = $this->db_server_info(); /* * Account for MariaDB version being prefixed with '5.5.5-' on older PHP versions. * * Note: str_contains() is not used here, as this file can be included * directly outside of WordPress core, e.g. by HyperDB, in which case * the polyfills from wp-includes/compat.php are not loaded. */ if ( '5.5.5' === $db_version && false !== strpos( $db_server_info, 'MariaDB' ) && PHP_VERSION_ID < 80016 // PHP 8.0.15 or older. ) { // Strip the '5.5.5-' prefix and set the version to the correct value. $db_server_info = preg_replace( '/^5\.5\.5-(.*)/', '$1', $db_server_info ); $db_version = preg_replace( '/[^0-9.].*/', '', $db_server_info ); } switch ( strtolower( $db_cap ) ) { case 'collation': // @since 2.5.0 case 'group_concat': // @since 2.7.0 case 'subqueries': // @since 2.7.0 return version_compare( $db_version, '4.1', '>=' ); case 'set_charset': return version_compare( $db_version, '5.0.7', '>=' ); case 'utf8mb4': // @since 4.1.0 return true; case 'utf8mb4_520': // @since 4.6.0 return version_compare( $db_version, '5.6', '>=' ); case 'identifier_placeholders': // @since 6.2.0 /* * As of WordPress 6.2, wpdb::prepare() supports identifiers via '%i', * e.g. table/field names. */ return true; } return false; }Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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