Question

I have a mysql table. I have created a html table and filled it with data from my mysql table using php and sql. I then want to be able to click a checkbox next to each row of data, and click edit, and be able to edit the data all from the webpage.

Code which i used to build the html table and fill it with mysql data:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
 if (mysql_num_rows($result)>0){
 $r = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC);
 $table="<table><tr style='background:#cccccc;'>";
 $firstLine="<tr>";
 foreach ($r as $k => $v){
   $table .="<td style='border:1px #ffffff solid;'>".$k."</td>";
   $firstLine .="<td>".$v."</td>";
 }
 $table.="</tr>".$firstLine."</tr>";
 while($r = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC)){
   $table.="<tr>";
   foreach($r as $k => $v)
     $table.="<td>".$v."</td>";
   $table.="</tr>";
 }
  $table .="</table>";
 echo $table;
}

Can anyone help provide me with any guidance which will help me achieve this?

Answer 1

put each piece of data that could be changed into a text input, instead of just as text, with the value attribute what’s coming from the db and a name which can identify it. That way, you can check the box next to the text input and change it. when the data is sent to the server, anytime a checkbox is checked, that’s a row that will change in the db.