int hw_modifyobject(int connection, int object_to_change, array remove, array add);This command allows to remove, add, or modify individual attributes of an object record. The object is specified by the Object ID object_to_change. The first array remove is a list of attributes to remove. The second array add is a list of attributes to add. In order to modify an attribute one will have to remove the old one and add a new one. hw_modifyobject() will always remove the attributes before it adds attributes unless the value of the attribute to remove is not a string or array.
The keys of both arrays are the attributes name. The value of each array element can either be an array, a string or anything else. If it is an array each attribute value is constructed by the key of each element plus a colon and the value of each element. If it is a string it is taken as the attribute value. An empty string will result in a complete removal of that attribute. If the value is neither a string nor an array but something else, e.g. an integer, no operation at all will be performed on the attribute. This is neccessary if you want to to add a completely new attribute not just a new value for an existing attribute. If the remove array contained an empty string for that attribute, the attribute would be tried to removed which would fail since it doesn't exist. The following addition of a new value for that attribute would also fail. Setting the value for that attribute to e.g. 0 would not even try to remove it since the addition will work.
If you would like to change the attribute 'Name' with the current value 'books' into 'articles' you will have to create two arrays and call hw_modifyobject().
Example 1. modifying an attribute // $connect is an existing connection to the Hyperwave server
// $objid is the ID of the object to modify
$remarr = array("Name" => "books");
$addarr = array("Name" => "articles");
$hw_modifyobject($connect, $objid, $remarr, $addarr);
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Example 2. adding a completly new attribute // $connect is an existing connection to the Hyperwave server
// $objid is the ID of the object to modify
$remarr = array("Name" => 0);
$addarr = array("Name" => "articles");
$hw_modifyobject($connect, $objid, $remarr, $addarr);
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Note: Multilingual attributes, e.g. 'Title', can be modified in two ways. Either by providing the attributes value in its native form 'language':'title' or by providing an array with elements for each language as described above. The above example would than be:
Example 3. modifying Title attribute $remarr = array("Title" => "en:Books");
$addarr = array("Title" => "en:Articles");
$hw_modifyobject($connect, $objid, $remarr, $addarr);
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Example 4. modifying Title attribute $remarr = array("Title" => array("en" => "Books"));
$addarr = array("Title" => array("en" => "Articles", "ge"=>"Artikel"));
$hw_modifyobject($connect, $objid, $remarr, $addarr);
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Example 5. removing attribute $remarr = array("Title" => "");
$addarr = array("Title" => "en:Articles");
$hw_modifyobject($connect, $objid, $remarr, $addarr);
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If you need to delete all attributes with a certain name you will have to pass an empty string as the attribute value.
Note: Only the attributes 'Title', 'Description' and 'Keyword' will properly handle the language prefix. If those attributes don't carry a language prefix, the prefix 'xx' will be assigned.
Returns TRUE if no error occurs otherwise FALSE.