Question

I wonder is someone can help, I’m building a website, which is driven from a database. It will consist of user submitted information.

Currently all the information is pulled from a record in the database and is being output via a PHP echo, what i would like too do is add a feature that would allow me to edit the information if incorrect from the websites front end.

I have seen many websites have some form of edit icon next to information in there databases, when clicking this icon the echoed text changes from text to a text field and you are able to update the field being echoed from the database.

Im a designer so have limited knowledge of how functionality for this kinda feature might work.

please could anyone let me know how something like this might be achieved.

many thanks.

Answer 1

You would need to build some kind of javascript functionality to allow the in-place editing of those data bits. One possible solution is a jQuery plugin like jEditable.

Then you need to build a server-side script in something like PHP or ruby where it would take the submitted information and update the database.