php-doc-en/reference/mongo/mongocollection/remove.xml
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<refentry xml:id="mongocollection.remove" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<refnamediv>
<refname>MongoCollection::remove</refname>
<refpurpose>Remove records from this collection</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<modifier>public</modifier> <type>bool|array</type><methodname>MongoCollection::remove</methodname>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>array</type><parameter>criteria</parameter><initializer>array()</initializer></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>array</type><parameter>options</parameter><initializer>array()</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<parameter>criteria</parameter>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Description of records to remove.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<parameter>options</parameter>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Options for remove.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>"justOne"</literal>
</para>
<para>
Remove at most one record matching this criteria.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>"safe"</literal>
</para>
<para>
Can be a boolean or integer, defaults to &false;. If &false;, the
program continues executing without waiting for a database response.
If &true;, the program will wait for the database response and throw a
<classname>MongoCursorException</classname> if the update did not
succeed.
</para>
<para>
If you are using replication and the master has changed, using "safe"
will make the driver disconnect from the master, throw and exception,
and attempt to find a new master on the next operation (your
application must decide whether or not to retry the operation on the
new master).
</para>
<para>
If you <emphasis>do not</emphasis> use "safe" with a replica set and
the master changes, there will be no way for the driver to know about
the change so it will continuously and silently fail to write.
</para>
<para>
If <literal>safe</literal> is an integer, will replicate the
update to that many machines before returning success (or throw an
exception if the replication times out, see wtimeout). This overrides
the w variable set on the collection.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>"fsync"</literal>
</para>
<para>
Boolean, defaults to &false;. Forces the update to be synced to
disk before returning success. If &true;, a safe update is implied
and will override setting <literal>safe</literal> to &false;.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>"timeout"</literal>
</para>
<para>
Integer, defaults to <literal>MongoCursor::$timeout</literal>. If
"safe" is set, this sets how long (in milliseconds) for the client to
wait for a database response. If the database does not respond within
the timeout period, a <classname>MongoCursorTimeoutException</classname>
will be thrown.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
If <parameter>safe</parameter> was set, returns an array containing the
status of the remove. Otherwise, returns a boolean representing if the
array was not empty (an empty array will not be inserted). The fields in
this array are decribed in the documentation for
<function>MongoCollection::insert</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="errors">
&reftitle.errors;
<para>
Throws <classname>MongoCursorException</classname> if the "safe" option is
set and the remove fails.
</para>
<para>
Throws <classname>MongoCursorTimeoutException</classname> if the "safe"
option is set and the operation takes longer than
<varname>MongoCursor::$timeout</varname> milliseconds to complete. This does
not kill the operation on the server, it is a client-side timeout.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
<para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>1.0.5</entry>
<entry>
Changed second parameter to an array of options. Pre-1.0.5, the
second parameter was a boolean indicating the "justOne" option and
there was no safe option.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1.0.9</entry>
<entry>
Added ability to pass integers to "safe" options (only accepted booleans
before) and added "fsync" option.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1.0.9</entry>
<entry>
The return type was changed to be an array containing error
information if the "safe" option is used, otherwise it is a boolean as
before.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1.0.11</entry>
<entry>
Disconnects on "not master" errors if "safe" is set.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1.2.0</entry>
<entry>
Added timeout option.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1.3.0</entry>
<entry>
The <parameter>options</parameter> parameter does no longer accept
just a boolean to signify "justOne". Instead, this now has to be done
with <literal>array('justOne' => true)</literal>.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<example>
<title><function>MongoCollection::remove</function> with justOne example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$radioactive = $db->radioactive;
// count how much more plutonium there is
$remaining = $radioactive->count(array('type' => 94));
$halflife = $remaining/2;
// remove half of it
while ($halflife > 0) {
$radioactive->remove(array('type' => 94), array("justOne" => true));
$halflife--;
}
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<simplelist>
<member><function>MongoCollection::insert</function></member>
<member><function>MongoCollection::update</function></member>
<member>MongoDB core docs on <link xlink:href="&url.mongodb.dochub.remove;">remove</link>.</member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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