attachment_url_to_postid() │ WP 4.0.0

Tries to convert an attachment URL into a post ID.

Hooks from the function

Return

Int. The found post ID, or 0 on failure.

Usage

attachment_url_to_postid( $url );
$url(string) (required)
The URL to resolve.

Notes

  • Global. wpdb. $wpdb WordPress database abstraction object.

Changelog

Since 4.0.0 Introduced.

Code of attachment_url_to_postid() WP 6.0

wp-includes/media.php 
function attachment_url_to_postid( $url ) {
	global $wpdb;

	$dir  = wp_get_upload_dir();
	$path = $url;

	$site_url   = parse_url( $dir['url'] );
	$image_path = parse_url( $path );

	// Force the protocols to match if needed.
	if ( isset( $image_path['scheme'] ) && ( $image_path['scheme'] !== $site_url['scheme'] ) ) {
		$path = str_replace( $image_path['scheme'], $site_url['scheme'], $path );
	}

	if ( 0 === strpos( $path, $dir['baseurl'] . '/' ) ) {
		$path = substr( $path, strlen( $dir['baseurl'] . '/' ) );
	}

	$sql = $wpdb->prepare(
		"SELECT post_id, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = '_wp_attached_file' AND meta_value = %s",
		$path
	);

	$results = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );
	$post_id = null;

	if ( $results ) {
		// Use the first available result, but prefer a case-sensitive match, if exists.
		$post_id = reset( $results )->post_id;

		if ( count( $results ) > 1 ) {
			foreach ( $results as $result ) {
				if ( $path === $result->meta_value ) {
					$post_id = $result->post_id;
					break;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Filters an attachment ID found by URL.
	 *
	 * @since 4.2.0
	 *
	 * @param int|null $post_id The post_id (if any) found by the function.
	 * @param string   $url     The URL being looked up.
	 */
	return (int) apply_filters( 'attachment_url_to_postid', $post_id, $url );
}

Link (URL)

Rarely used