Question

I have this code which gets the contents from a mysql databse.

So basically, what happens is that foreach row in the database, it creates a div with the contents in. However, I want the user to be able to delete the post, but I simply can’t get my head around how to do it.

This is the code:

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
  $contents= $row['contents'];
}
echo '<div class = "post" style = "margin-right: 300px;">'.$contents.'<br><p>DELETE -- HOW CAN I DO THIS??</p></div>';

Basically, what this does is get the contents of the row, each time. But I want the user to be able to click on delete it, and it deletes the div which has the contents, and removes it from the database.

I have tried simply to delete the div, but that deletes ALL the divs, not just the one that I clicked delete in.

How can I do this, I don’t care how.

Thanks. I am sorry if there is too much info, or I ask too much.

Answer 1

I have found out what to do.

Here is what I did:

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
  $contents= $row['contents'];
  $contentID = $row['contentID'];
}
echo '<div class = "post" style = "margin-right: 300px;">'.$contents.'<br><a href = "delete.php?id='..$contentID'">X</a></div>';

And on the delete.php I have something like this:

$id = 1;
mysql_query("DELETE FROM table_name WHERE $contentID = $id");