<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Deletes a record from a database</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.dbase-create.html">dbase_create</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.dbase-get-header-info.html">dbase_get_header_info</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.dbase.html">dBase Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.dbase-delete-record" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">dbase_delete_record</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">dbase_delete_record</span> — <span class="dc-title">Deletes a record from a database</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.dbase-delete-record-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>dbase_delete_record</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$dbase_identifier</code></span> , <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$record_number</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Marks the given record to be deleted from the database. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> To actually remove the record from the database, you must also call <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-pack.html" class="function">dbase_pack()</a></span>. </p> </p></blockquote> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.dbase-delete-record-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">dbase_identifier</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The database link identifier, returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-open.html" class="function">dbase_open()</a></span> or <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-create.html" class="function">dbase_create()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">record_number</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> An integer which spans from 1 to the number of records in the database (as returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-numrecords.html" class="function">dbase_numrecords()</a></span>). </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.dbase-delete-record-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.dbase-delete-record-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-add-record.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dbase_add_record()</a> - Adds a record to a database</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.dbase-replace-record.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">dbase_replace_record()</a> - Replaces a record in a database</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.dbase-create.html">dbase_create</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.dbase-get-header-info.html">dbase_get_header_info</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.dbase.html">dBase Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>