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So, I have a site that displays several students’ requests to change advisors, with an Approve and Deny button for each student. Then I have a Javascript pop-up that confirms the decision when clicked on either button, and it will also e-mail the student about this decision. This should all be on one page as well.

How do I specify which student I will update and e-mail to? I know the query will be like $query = “UPDATE student set current_advisor = “.$requested_advisor.” where SID = “.$sid, but how do I specify which student I’m doing this for?

I have only worked with php forms, where you have the user type in the information, but in this case, all the data is there already…

Answer 1

$sid is the id of the student you want to update… It depends how you’re building the page. You can either insert a form for each student, as follows:

// for each student
<form method="post">
  <input type="hidden" value="the-sid" name="SID"/>
  <input type="submit" value="confirm" name="type" onclick="return confirm('Sure?');"/>
  <input type="submit" value="deny" name="type" onclick="return confirm('Sure?');"/>
</form>
// end for each

Then when the user clicks either approve or deny, you’re $_POST array in PHP will be filled with:

array("SID"=> $theSID, "type" => "confirm or deny");