PHP: Implement edit and delete buttons for UI table

Question

I am writing a sort of custom Administrative UI.

I have implemented the php code that inserts and reads records from the DB table.

The records are visualized in a table in the UI in the below pattern:

test title

Added: 2011-12-29 17:34:35

test2

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test title

Added: 2011-12-29 17:34:35 tests

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test title2 Added: 2011-12-29 17:34:35 test22

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I have the following structure for my database table:

TABLE news ( guid , lang , title , content , date, PRIMARY KEY (guid, lang) )

guid is generated with php com_create_guid () function.

How can I implement buttons Edit and Delete beside each item?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

• you can make a form with hidden inputs that contain record id and buttons with different names. For each record:

 <form action="action.php" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="record_id" value="12"> <input type="submit" value="Edit" name="doedit"> <input type="submit" value="Delete" name="dodelete"> </form> 

In action.php:

if (isset($_POST['doedit'])){do smth.}
if (isset($_POST['dodelete'])){do smth.}

• you can make links instead giving each different url containing action and record id as GET parameters.
  Suppose you have a file action.php. For record number 12 the "edit" link will go to "action.php?do=edit&record=12", the "delete" link will go to "action.php?do=delete&record=12".
  In action.php:

  $do=$_GET['do']; //you should add some validation of $_GET
  $rec=$_GET['record']; if ($do=='edit'){do smth.} if ($do=='delete'){do smth.}