How to delete a record by specific field value?

[satheesh110]

This is how I usually delete a record

1. Define object for parse class
   $parseObject = new parseObject("Authorized_Rooms_Scenes");
2. Get objectId for a record I want to delete.
   $obj_ID=getObjectId($table,$field,$fieldVal); // custom function
3. Now I delete as below
   $parseObject->delete($data);

Is there any way to bypass 2nd step? It's really taking much time for me to parse through all records to find a single objectId. Please someone help me out.

[jay-neb]

Can't you just query for the objectId? $objectId = $parseQuery->where($field, $fieldVal)
Anyway when you call $parseObject->delete() you should be using $objectId as the parameter and not the actual object as you appear to be doing with $data.