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<font face="sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I have a module that uses quite a few variables</font> and would
like to remove them in my hook_uninstall() function, but I don't
want to have to list them all manually...<br>
<br>
I see three ways to do this:<br>
1 - Run variable_del() for each variable manually<br>
2 - List all variables then remove the ones that start with my
module's name<br>
3 - Delete variables directly from the database that start with my
module's name<br>
<br>
I'm obviously trying to avoid #1.<br>
I've used #2 before (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupalbin.com/18718">http://drupalbin.com/18718</a>) but am worried
about the possible performance implications of running a foreach()
on every variable in Drupal... Is this good or not?<br>
I'd prefer not to resort to using SQL to delete variables from the
database directly as in #3, but this may be the only recommended
option...<br>
<br>
What is the recommended way to call variable_del() on a bunch of
variables? I'm using D7 if that helps.<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
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Kind regards,
Peter Anderson.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://panda.id.au">http://panda.id.au</a>
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