Deletes a vocabulary.
This will update all Taxonomy fields so that they don't reference the deleted vocabulary. It also will delete fields that have no remaining vocabulary references. All taxonomy terms of the deleted vocabulary will be deleted as well.
$vid: A vocabulary ID.
Constant indicating items were deleted.
function taxonomy_vocabulary_delete($vid) {
$vocabulary = taxonomy_vocabulary_load($vid);
$transaction = db_transaction();
try {
// Only load terms without a parent, child terms will get deleted too.
$result = db_query('SELECT t.tid FROM {taxonomy_term_data} t INNER JOIN {taxonomy_term_hierarchy} th ON th.tid = t.tid WHERE t.vid = :vid AND th.parent = 0', array(
':vid' => $vid,
))
->fetchCol();
foreach ($result as $tid) {
taxonomy_term_delete($tid);
}
db_delete('taxonomy_vocabulary')
->condition('vid', $vid)
->execute();
field_attach_delete_bundle('taxonomy_term', $vocabulary->machine_name);
module_invoke_all('taxonomy_vocabulary_delete', $vocabulary);
module_invoke_all('entity_delete', $vocabulary, 'taxonomy_vocabulary');
// Load all Taxonomy module fields and delete those which use only this
// vocabulary.
$taxonomy_fields = field_read_fields(array(
'module' => 'taxonomy',
));
foreach ($taxonomy_fields as $field_name => $taxonomy_field) {
$modified_field = FALSE;
// Term reference fields may reference terms from more than one
// vocabulary.
foreach ($taxonomy_field['settings']['allowed_values'] as $key => $allowed_value) {
if ($allowed_value['vocabulary'] == $vocabulary->machine_name) {
unset($taxonomy_field['settings']['allowed_values'][$key]);
$modified_field = TRUE;
}
}
if ($modified_field) {
if (empty($taxonomy_field['settings']['allowed_values'])) {
field_delete_field($field_name);
}
else {
// Update the field definition with the new allowed values.
field_update_field($taxonomy_field);
}
}
}
cache_clear_all();
taxonomy_vocabulary_static_reset();
return SAVED_DELETED;
} catch (Exception $e) {
$transaction
->rollback();
watchdog_exception('taxonomy', $e);
throw $e;
}
}