Using PHP to remove all nodes from a Content type

Today I had over 1,000 nodes to remove from a Drupal 6 installation. The bulk update only lets you remove 50 nodes at a time. What to do?

My Situation

All the node were from a certain content type. Actually, I need to remove all node that belonged to a particular content type. Lets call this content type "articles" My Solution Use PHP to remove all the node that belong to that node type. First I activated the PHP filter Then I ran this PHP script

 
   $node_type = 'story'; 
   //get the nodes we need 
   $result = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE type='%s'",$node_type); 
   while ($row = db_fetch_object($result)){ 
        node_delete($row->nid); 
        $deleted_count+=1; 
   }
   //debug message
   drupal_set_message("$deleted_count nodes have been deleted");