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flixos90 81423c3ea6 Options, Meta APIs: Introduce prime_options() to load multiple options with a single database request.
WordPress's `get_option()` function generally relies on making individual database requests for each option, however with the majority of options (in most cases) being autoloaded, i.e. fetched once with a single database request and then stored in (memory) cache.

As part of a greater effort to reduce the amount of options that are unnecessarily autoloaded, this changeset introduces an alternative way to retrieve multiple options in a performant manner, with a single database request. This provides a reasonable alternative for e.g. plugins that use several options which only need to be loaded in a few specific screens.

Specifically, this changeset introduces the following functions:
* `prime_options( $options )` is the foundation to load multiple specific options with a single database request. Only options that aren't already cached (in `alloptions` or an individual cache) are retrieved from the database.
* `prime_options_by_group( $option_group )` is a convenience wrapper function for the above which allows to prime all options of a specific option group (as configured via `register_setting()`).
* `get_options( $options )` is another wrapper function which first primes the requested options and then returns them in an associative array, calling `get_option()` for each of them.

Props mukesh27, joemcgill, costdev, olliejones.
Fixes #58962.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@56445 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
2023-08-24 14:40:01 +00:00
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The short version:

1. Create a clean MySQL database and user. DO NOT USE AN EXISTING DATABASE or you will lose data, guaranteed.

2. Copy wp-tests-config-sample.php to wp-tests-config.php, edit it and include your database name/user/password.

3. $ svn up

4. Run the tests from the "trunk" directory:
   To execute a particular test:
      $ phpunit tests/phpunit/tests/test_case.php
   To execute all tests:
      $ phpunit

Notes:

Test cases live in the 'tests' subdirectory. All files in that directory will be included by default. Extend the WP_UnitTestCase class to ensure your test is run.

phpunit will initialize and install a (more or less) complete running copy of WordPress each time it is run. This makes it possible to run functional interface and module tests against a fully working database and codebase, as opposed to pure unit tests with mock objects and stubs. Pure unit tests may be used also, of course.

Changes to the test database will be rolled back as tests are finished, to ensure a clean start next time the tests are run.

phpunit is intended to run at the command line, not via a web server.