Question

Brushing up on php and working on a simple program where I’ve run into an issue. I can’t seem to figure out how to delete a mysql row. I will link my script in a pastie document so you can see how I have it set up.

I’m not familiar with AJAX or Javascript.. so I just made the delete button a form. I’d like to keep it like this for now if I can make it work.

PASTIE HERE

Answer 1

On line 30 you have two inputs named del, and the second one does not contain the name to delete

echo '<form id="del" method="post"><input type="submit" name="del" value="X" /><input type="hidden" name="del" /></form>';

Need to change to something like –

echo '<form id="del" method="post"><input type="submit" name="del_submit" value="X" /><input type="hidden" name="del" value="'.$del.'" /></form>';

Then change lines 12-13 to

if (isset($_POST['del_submit'])) {
mysql_query("DELETE FROM name WHERE name='".$_POST['del']."'");

Please note that mysql_ functions are depreciated, and you are subject to sql injection.