Hello!
I want to delete a (primary) email address from a contact using beans - and I can’t figure out how.
I have a contact bean, retrieved using the id:
$person = BeanFactory::getBean("Contacts");
$person = $person->retrieve_by_string_fields(array('id' => $id));
I also have an email-address, $email. I know that $person has $email as primary email address, and I want to delete that email address (because it hard-bounced). I found something like removeAddress but it did not work. I think I need to do something with relationships but I can’t find anything about the emailAddress object that I can use. Any help is appreciated…
Regards,
Hi, welcome to the Community!
Yes, you need to load_relationship and then (from that relationship loaded) do a delete .
Look for examples online with the relationship name which I is email_addresses .
Like this one
Email addresses are related records, and the opt_out field is in email_addresses table.
I found this example online, it deletes all email addresses, which is not what you want, but it should be enough to get you going with the iteration of the email addresses linked to a Contact…
if ($bean->load_relationship('email_addresses')) {
$relatedBeans = $bean->get_linked_beans('email_addresses', 'email_address');
foreach ( $relatedBeans as $relatedBean ) {
$bean->email_addresses->de…
Hi @pgr , thanx! This did the job:
Known: $id from Contact and $email to be deleted
$person = BeanFactory::getBean("Contacts");
$person = $person->retrieve_by_string_fields(array('id' => $id));
if ($person->load_relationship('email_addresses')) {
$relatedBeans = $person->get_linked_beans('email_addresses', 'email_address');
foreach ( $relatedBeans as $relatedBean ) {
if ($relatedBean->email_address == $email) {
$person->email_addresses->delete($bean->id, $relatedBean->id);
}
}
}
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Instead of
$person = BeanFactory::getBean("Contacts");
$person = $person->retrieve_by_string_fields(array('id' => $id));
you can probably just use
$person = BeanFactory::getBean("Contacts", $id);
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