<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >dbmdelete</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="DBM Functions [deprecated]" HREF="ref.dbm.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="dbmclose" HREF="function.dbmclose.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dbmexists" HREF="function.dbmexists.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbmclose.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.dbmexists.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.dbmdelete" ></A >dbmdelete</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN17471" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >dbmdelete -- Deletes the value for a key from a DBM database </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN17474" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >dbmdelete</B > ( resource dbm_identifier, string key)<BR ></BR ><P > Deletes the value for <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >key</I ></TT > in the database. </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > if the key didn't exist in the database. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbmclose.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.dbmexists.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >dbmclose</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dbm.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dbmexists</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >