I have a HTML table that displays all my table entries. Also in the table is a delete button next to every SQL entry.
I want to be able to delete an entry the user selects. I've made the form to Post PHP_Self
, and I'm passing in the index $i
from the while loop as a reference:
$i = 0;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td>
<? echo $row['uniqueIdentifier']; ?>
</td>
<td>
<form action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<input type='hidden' name='remove_entrie_ID' value='<? echo $i; ?>' />
<input type='submit' value='Delete' name='remove_entrie'>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<?
$i++;
}
So this is passed to itself, I now want to do a DELETE WHERE 'INDEX OF TABLE' == $i
, type thing? I don't even know if this is possible.
if(isset($_POST['remove_entrie'])){
$index = $_POST['remove_entrie_ID']
echo "Index: " . $index;
//mysqli_query($con, "DELETE FROM Users WHERE INDEX = '$index'");
}
I'm basically using the $i to pick out the index of how the table was loaded, and then using that to pick out which row I want to delete. But I have a feeling this can't be done?
I basically want to delete a row the user has selected from the table.
You don't need $i variable. Just make simple modification in your list:
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td>
<? echo $row['uniqueIdentifier']; ?>
</td>
<td>
<form action="" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="remove_entrie_ID" value="<? echo $row['uniqueIdentifier']; ?>" />
<input type="submit" value="Delete" name="remove_entrie">
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<?
}
It is also good idea to escape specials chars etc in your post variable to avoid sql injection.