PHP - HTML best practices to handle (submit) generated rows
Question
I have html table generated via ajax. And last column on this table contains button. My question is what is the best practice to submit these rows (only one at time. I need use this method to amend records). Is it worth to wrap each row with
<form>
<input type="hidden" value="hidden value">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Or people using something difference? Reason why i'm asking for is because i'm worry about very long list example 1k rows or 10k rows (that means i will have 1k or 10k forms on a page).
4 answers
solution1
1 2016-09-20 10:45:20
You can just use a hyperlink (which you can style to look like a button using CSS if you want). eg:
<a href="edit.php?id=1">Edit</a>
where the value you give as the "id" parameter is the primary key of the record in that row.
Then in edit.php look for the id value using $_GET["id"] and fetch the appropriate record from the DB.
solution2
1 2016-09-20 11:18:23
As Progrock advises , a form element may only be used " where flow content is expected " (ie not as a direct child of table or tr ).
HTML 5 introduces a form attribute as a workaround:
<form id="row_1">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="pk1">
</form>
<form id="row_2">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="pk2">
</form>
<table>
<tr>
<td> <input type="text" name="attribute1" form="row_1"> </td>
<td> <input type="submit" form="row_1"> </td>
</tr>
<!-- and so on for each row -->
</table>
It has been brought to my attention that in this case, there is no direct user input being submitted, but only generated contents.
Well, then the solution is even simpler:
<table>
<tr> <td>
<form id="row_1">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="pk1">
<input type="hidden" name="attribute1" value="whatever">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</td> </tr>
<!-- and so on for each row -->
</table>
solution3
1 2016-09-20 13:22:00
I thought I'd have a go without form elements, working with editable table cells. Within each row you provide a button. And when you click it, an ajax post is made of the cell values.
You could have a non js fall back where the save button is replaced for an edit button that takes you to another page with a single form.
Forgive my JS.
I have the session storage in there just to check the concept.
<?php
session_start();
var_dump($_SESSION);
$data = array(
23 => ['triangle', 'green', '2'],
47 => ['square', 'red', '3'],
17 => ['pentagon', 'pink', '4']
);
if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
// Save state here
$_SESSION['submission'] = $_POST;
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$('button').click(function() {
// Get all table cells in the buttons row
var $cells = $(this).closest('tr').find('td[contenteditable="true"]');
var jsonData = {};
$.each($cells, function() {
jsonData[get_table_cell_column_class($(this))] = $(this).text().trim();
});
jsonData['id'] = $(this).attr('id');
$.post('',jsonData, function() {
alert('Saved.');
});
});
function get_table_cell_column_class($td)
{
var $th = $td.closest('table').find('th').eq($td.index());
return $th.attr('class');
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="shape">Shape</th>
<th class="colour">Colour</th>
<th class="width">Width</th>
<th>Ops</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php foreach($data as $key => $row) { ?>
<tr>
<?php foreach($row as $field) { ?>
<td contenteditable=true>
<?php echo $field ?>
</td>
<?php } ?>
<td>
<button id="<?php echo $key ?>">Save</button>
</td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
solution4
0 ACCPTED 2016-09-20 10:47:39
You can use the following
<table id="YourTableId">
...
<tr data-id="yourrowId">
<td class="col1"> value1</td>
<td class="col2"> value2</td>
<td class="col3"> value3</td>
<td class="actions">
<a href="#"> Submit</a>
</td>
</tr>
....
</table>
your javascript code will be like
$(document).ready(function (){
$('#YourTableId a').off('click').on('click',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var tr = $(this).closest('tr')
var data={ // here you can add as much as you want from variables
'id' : tr.data('id), // if you want to send id value
'col1': tr.find('.col1').text(),
'col2': tr.find('.col2').text(),
'col3': tr.find('.col3').text(),
};
$.ajax({
method: 'post',
url: 'your url goes here',
data: data,
success: function(result){
// handle the result here
}
});
});
});
Hope this will help you
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