Adding delete button to php code displaying mysql table contents
Question
I have searched for an answer that relates to my code but I'm new to php and html so I would appreciate the help.
So I've created code that uses loops to display a html table with the contents of the specified table from a mysql database. I would like to give the user an option to delete a row when the results are displayed.
This is my code so far to display the results of my database table:
<html><head><title>MySQL Table Viewer</title></head><body>
<?php
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'username';
$db_pwd = 'password';
$database = 'dvdproject';
$table = 'Employee';
$con= mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_pwd,$database);
if(!$con){
die("Can not connect" . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db($database,$con);
// sending query
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table}");
$fields_num = mysql_num_fields($result);
echo "<h1>Table: {$table}</h1>";
echo "<table border='1'><tr>";
// printing table headers
for($i=0; $i<$fields_num; $i++)
{
$field = mysql_fetch_field($result);
echo "<td>{$field->name}</td>";
}
echo "</tr>\n";
// printing table rows
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
foreach($row as $cell)
echo "<td>$cell</td>";
echo '<form method="POST" name="deleterequest" action =
"deleterequest.php">';
echo "<input name='record_id' type='hidden' value='".$row['id']."'
>";
echo "<input name='delete'type='submit' value='Delete' >";
echo "</form>";
echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>";
mysql_close($con);
?>
No matter where I place my form to delete button, 6 delete buttons take up an entire row followed by the actual rows. I would like the delete button to be after each row but I just cant get my head around it!
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2016-05-03 15:21:11
Apologies if I am overlooking something here, but have you tried wrapping your delete button with <td> tags?
foreach($row as $cell)
echo "<td>$cell</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo '<form method="POST" name="deleterequest" action="deleterequest.php">';
echo "<input name='record_id' type='hidden' value='".$row['id']."'>";
echo "<input name='delete'type='submit' value='Delete' >";
echo "</form>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>\n";
}
I stripped everything bar HTML away from this and found a <td> tag around the form worked a treat.
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