Joomla JTable Load Array and edit fields - php

Question

I see that one can use an array with Jtable load, I tried the following:
public function delete($id = null) {
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$id = $id ? $id : $app->input->get('files', array(), 'ARRAY');
$file = JTable::getInstance('Document','Table');
$file->load($id);
$file->date_removed = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",time());
if($file->store())
{
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
print_r($id) is:
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
)
But I am having no luck. I keep getting the following error:
0 - Missing field in database: TableDocument   1.
Documentation on JTable
Any Help Greatly Appreciated.

Answer 1

Well actually you doing it wrong. You can load JTable with few field values, but it only returns 1 result;
Example use:
$data = array('id' => 100, 'user_id' => 101);
$table->load($data);
The code above will search for table entry with id = 100 AND user_id = 101. You cannot load 2 table entries like that.
My suggestion would be:
public function delete($id = null) {
$ids = array();
$return = true;
if ($id) {
$ids[] = $id;
} else {
$ids = JFactory::getApplication()->input->get('files', array(), 'ARRAY');
}
if (count($ids) > 0) {
foreach ($ids as $id) {
$file = JTable::getInstance('Document','Table');
$file->load($id);
$file->date_removed = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",time());
$temp = $file->store();
$return = $return || $temp;
}
}
return $return;
}