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Hi,

I am using the api code as follows;

$params = array( 'version'  => 3, 'options' => array('sort'=>' contact_id DESC', 'limit'=>10 ) );
$result = civicrm_api( 'Contact' , ' get' , $params );

this returns all the fields for contacts, but I just need the image_URL and display_name values. I know theres a 'return' param I can use, but I cannot find anywhere that states what format it is expecting the list of return fields. I tried adding them comma separated as below (and also as an array), but the entire dataset is still returned.

e.g
$params = array( 'version'  => 3, 'options' => array('sort'=>' contact_id DESC', 'limit'=>10,'return'=>'image_URL,contact_id' ) );
$result = civicrm_api( 'Contact' , ' get' , $params );

I'm sure this is a simple question - help much appreciated though!

Al.

xavier - I recently got burned by this also (putting "return" in the options array rather than at the top level). This seems silly, is there any reason not to support it as part of options, that seems to make more sense all-around.

That seems reasonable - there is a long tail of syntaxes supported for 'return' - but there are tests for all of them

lifecycle or deathspiral.....