An improvement to the clearMetadata method on ElggEntities - specify a name and it only clears metadata of that type.

git-svn-id: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@688 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/engine/lib/entities.php b/engine/lib/entities.php
index 17b6ff7f3..7ce4047bb 100644
--- a/engine/lib/entities.php
+++ b/engine/lib/entities.php
@@ -170,9 +170,13 @@
 		/**
 		 * Clear metadata.
 		 */
-		public function clearMetaData()
-		{
-			return clear_metadata($this->getGUID());
+		public function clearMetaData($name = "")
+		{

+			if (empty($name)) {
+				return clear_metadata($this->getGUID());

+			} else {

+				return remove_metadata($this->getGUID(),$name);

+			}
 		}
 		

 		/**