wpdb::check_safe_collation( string $query )

Check if the query is accessing a collation considered safe on the current version of MySQL.


Parameters

$query

(Required) The query to check.


Return

(bool) True if the collation is safe, false if it isn't.


Source

File: wp-includes/wp-db.php

	protected function check_safe_collation( $query ) {
		if ( $this->checking_collation ) {
			return true;
		}

		// We don't need to check the collation for queries that don't read data.
		$query = ltrim( $query, "\r\n\t (" );
		if ( preg_match( '/^(?:SHOW|DESCRIBE|DESC|EXPLAIN|CREATE)\s/i', $query ) ) {
			return true;
		}

		// All-ASCII queries don't need extra checking.
		if ( $this->check_ascii( $query ) ) {
			return true;
		}

		$table = $this->get_table_from_query( $query );
		if ( ! $table ) {
			return false;
		}

		$this->checking_collation = true;
		$collation = $this->get_table_charset( $table );
		$this->checking_collation = false;

		// Tables with no collation, or latin1 only, don't need extra checking.
		if ( false === $collation || 'latin1' === $collation ) {
			return true;
		}

		$table = strtolower( $table );
		if ( empty( $this->col_meta[ $table ] ) ) {
			return false;
		}

		// If any of the columns don't have one of these collations, it needs more sanity checking.
		foreach ( $this->col_meta[ $table ] as $col ) {
			if ( empty( $col->Collation ) ) {
				continue;
			}

			if ( ! in_array( $col->Collation, array( 'utf8_general_ci', 'utf8_bin', 'utf8mb4_general_ci', 'utf8mb4_bin' ), true ) ) {
				return false;
			}
		}

		return true;
	}


Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
WP-4.2.0 Introduced.