Bootstrap and user generation

[FuturShoc]

$u = $users->get($username);
$users->delete($u);

I'm trying to delete users in a batch process as I perfect my import script. 

However, I'm getting this error on the above code.

Error Call to a member function get() on a non-object

Cany anyone see a reason this might fail?

[Soma]

You have to use wire in bootstrap. wire('users')->get().

[apeisa]

wire("users") instead of $users when bootstrapping.

[Soma]

Was that an echo?

[apeisa]

No comments.

[FuturShoc]

Ah, I see.

I've revised my code to this:

$u = wire('users')->get($username);
wire('users')->delete($u);

... and I get this:

Error Uncaught exception 'WireException' with message 'Unable to delete pages of type '''

Thoughts?

[FuturShoc]

Ok, it appears my problem was trying to delete a user that was already deleted.

See, I'm reading all this user data from a CSV file and I'm mapping various bits of text from each row to the different fields I've added to the user template. If I get the mapping wrong or I need to revise it, I needed some way to delete all of those users so I can retry the import again.

In the process of going back and forth, I got my unique usernames mixed up a bit (generated by concatenation of row data).

This fixed me up:

try 
{
$u = wire("users")->get($username);
        wire("users")->delete($u);
} catch (Exception $e)  {
	// fires when no user exists by that username				
}

[apeisa]

You can also do this:

$users = wire("users");

$u = $users->get($username);
if($u->id) $users->delete($u);

[FuturShoc]

You can also do this:

$users = wire("users");

$u = $users->get($username);
if($u->id) $users->delete($u);

Ah, yes. Definitely a cleaner soluton. Thanks, apeisa.