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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:34:56+00:00

I would like to know the best way to delete records from a live

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I would like to know the best way to delete records from a live database and refresh the page instantly. At the moment I am using ajax, with the following javascript method:

function deleterec(layer, pk) {    url = 'get_records.php?cmd=deleterec&pk='+pk+'&sid='+Math.random();    update('Layer2', url); }

if cmd=deleterec on the php page, a delete is done where the primary key = pk. This works fine as in the record is deleted, however the page is not updated.

My update method is pretty simple:

function update(layer, url) {     var xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject(); //you have this defined elsewhere      if(xmlHttp==null) {         alert('Your browser is not supported?');     }      xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {         if(xmlHttp.readyState==4 || xmlHttp.readyState=='complete') {             document.getElementById(layer).innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;         } else if (xmlHttp.readyState==1 || xmlHttp.readyState=='loading') {             document.getElementById(layer).innerHTML='loading';         }         //etc     }      xmlHttp.open('GET',url,true);     xmlHttp.send(null); }

how to delete or alter record, and upate the page.

At the moment my ajax framework works by passing data to a javascript update method, which works fine for selecting different queries to display in different layers.

I want to add the functionality to delete, or alter the records in a certain way.

I am wondering if it is possible when clicking a link to execute a query and then call my update method and refesh tge page. Is there any easy way to do this given my update methods?

I would like to avoid rewriting my update method if possible.

WOuld the simplest method be to have the php page(only in the layer) reload itself after executing a mysql query?

Or to make a new ‘alterstatus’ method, which would pass delete or watch as a paramter, and have the php execute a query accordingly and then update the page?

edit: The links are generated like so. deleterec would be called from an additional link generated.

{

$pk = $row['ARTICLE_NO'];  echo '<tr>' . '\n';       echo '<td><a href='#' onclick='updateByPk(\'Layer2\', \'' . $pk . '\')'>'.$row['USERNAME'].'</a></td>' . '\n';   echo '<td><a href='#' onclick='updateByPk(\'Layer2\', \'' . $pk . '\')'>'.$row['shortDate'].'</a></td>' . '\n';   echo '<td><a href='#' onclick='updateByPk(\'Layer2\', \'' . $pk . '\')'>'.$row['ARTICLE_NAME'].'</a></td>' . '\n';    echo '<td><a href='#' onclick='deleteRec(\'Layer2\', \'' . $pk . '\')'>'.$row['ARTICLE_NAME'].'</a></td>' . '\n';   echo '</tr>' . '\n';

}

edit: the update method can not be modified, as it is used by the updateByPk and updateBypg methods which need a layer.

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  1. Without digging too much into your code specifics, I don’t know of any way to update/delete from the server side DB without doing a round trip (either AJAX or a page navigation). I would however recommend using a JavaScript framework (like jQuery, or something else) to handle the AJAX and DOM manipulations. That should, in theory, alleviate any cross-browser troubleshooting on the client side of thinbs.

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