It's preferred to explicitly delete every variable created by the module you're uninstalling.
If you do this in amazon module: "delete from variable where name like 'amazon_%'" you will delete the variables for amazon_store as well. Ooops. Not so good. -Randy On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Peter Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a module that uses quite a few variables and would like to remove > them in my hook_uninstall() function, but I don't want to have to list them > all manually... > > I see three ways to do this: > 1 - Run variable_del() for each variable manually > 2 - List all variables then remove the ones that start with my module's > name > 3 - Delete variables directly from the database that start with my module's > name > > I'm obviously trying to avoid #1. > I've used #2 before (http://drupalbin.com/18718) but am worried about the > possible performance implications of running a foreach() on every variable > in Drupal... Is this good or not? > 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... > > What is the recommended way to call variable_del() on a bunch of variables? > I'm using D7 if that helps. > Thanks. > > -- > Kind regards, > Peter Anderson.http://panda.id.au > > -- Randy Fay Drupal Module and Site Development [email protected] +1 970.462.7450
