# dbmdelete

(PHP 4)

dbmdelete — Deletes the value for a key from a DBM database

### Description

bool dbmdelete ( resource `$dbm_identifier` , string `$key` )

Deletes the value for `key` in the database.

### Parameters

`dbm_identifier`

  The DBM link identifier, returned by dbmopen().

`key`

  The key, as a string

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` on success or `FALSE` on failure. Returns `FALSE` if the key didn't exist in the database.

### See Also

- dbminsert()