delete single record in salesforce by php

Question

I have to delete a single record based on id but I got

error bad id 2 Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [errors] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [message] => bad id 2 [statusCode] => MALFORMED_ID ) ) [id] => [success] => ) )

<?php
    require_once('userAuth.php');

    require_once ('soapclient/SforcePartnerClient.php');

    $mySforceConnection = new SforcePartnerClient();
    $mySforceConnection->createConnection("PartnerWSDL.xml");
    $mySforceConnection->login(USERNAME, PASSWORD.SECURITY_TOKEN);
    $ids=array();
    $id=$_GET['id'];
    array_push($ids, $id);
    print_r($deleteResult);
    $deleteResult = $mySforceConnection->delete($ids);
?>

Answer 1

The delete() SOAP API call does not accept external Ids. It requires valid Salesforce Ids.

To delete a record based on its External Id, you need to first perform a query() to locate the Id(s) for the record(s) with that External Id value, then pass those Ids to delete().