Question

What I am trying to do is create a selectlist using the form API, where a user can select rows and press a delete button that deletes the selected rows from the database and reloads the table with a conformation that those selected had been deleted. With my current code, when I hit the delete button I get this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in form_execute_handlers() (line 1431 of C:\xampp\htdocs\amaware\includes\form.inc).

Here is the code:

            /**
             * Implements hook_menu().
             */
            function smsfeed_menu() {
              $items = array();

              $items['admin/config/content/smsfeed'] = array(
                'title' => 'SMS Messages and Newsletters',
                'description' => 'Edit the Setting for the SMS Feed and Newsletter',
                'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
                'page arguments' => array('smsfeed_form'),
                'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
                'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
                );

              $items['admin/config/content/smsfeed/settings'] = array(
                'title' => 'Settings',
                'type' => MENU_DEFAULT_LOCAL_TASK,
                    'weight' => 1,
                );  

              $items['admin/config/content/smsfeed/newsletter'] = array(
                'title' => 'Newsletter',
                'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
                    'page arguments' => array('newsletter_table_form'),
                'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
                'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
                    'weigth' => 2,
                    );

              $items['admin/config/content/smsfeed/feed'] = array(
                'title' => 'SMS Feed',
                'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
                'page arguments' => array('feed_form'),
                'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
                'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
                    'weight' => 3,
                    );

              $items['admin/config/content/smsfeed/questions'] = array(
                'title' => 'Questions',
                'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
                'page arguments' => array('questions_form'),
                'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
                'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
                    'weigth' => 4,
                    );

              return $items;
            }

            /**
             * Page callback: SMS Settings
             *
             * @see smsfeed_menu()
             */
            function smsfeed_form($form, &$form_state) {
              $form['response_time'] = array(
                '#type' => 'textfield',
                '#title' => t('Response Time (In Days)'),
                '#default_value' => variable_get('response_time', 3),
                '#size' => 2,
                '#maxlength' => 2,
                '#description' => t('The response time, in days, that users should expect.'),
              );

                $form['feed_keyword'] = array(
                  '#type' => 'textfield',
                '#title' => t('Feed Keyword'),
                '#default_value' => variable_get('feed_keyword', 'FEED'),
                '#size' => 10,
                '#maxlength' => 10,
                '#description' => t('The keyword users should text to have their message moderated and added to the website feed.'),
              );

                $form['join_keyword'] = array(
                  '#type' => 'textfield',
                '#title' => t('Join Keyword'),
                '#default_value' => variable_get('join_keyword', 'JOIN'),
                '#size' => 10,
                '#maxlength' => 10,
                '#description' => t('The keyword users should text to be added to the newsletter list.'),
              );

                $form['quit_keyword'] = array(
                  '#type' => 'textfield',
                '#title' => t('Quite Keyword'),
                '#default_value' => variable_get('quit_keyword', 'QUIT'),
                '#size' => 10,
                '#maxlength' => 10,
                '#description' => t('The keyword users should text to be removed from the newsletter list.'),
              );    

              return system_settings_form($form);
            }

            /**
             * Page Callback Newsletter
             */

            function newsletter_table_form($form, $form_state) {
                $rows = array();
                $header = array(t('User Name'), t('User Number'), t('User E-mail'),);

                $query = db_select('sms_newsletter');
                $query->fields('sms_newsletter', array('name', 'number', 'email',))
                    ->orderBy('name', 'ASC');
                $results = $query->execute();

                foreach ($results as $line) {
                    $rows[] = array(
                        $line->name,
                        $line->number,
                        $line->email,
                    );
                }

              $form['table'] = array(
                '#type' => 'tableselect',
                '#header' => $header,
                '#options' => $rows,
                '#empty' => t('No users found'),
              );

              $form['delete'] = array(
                '#type' => 'submit',
                '#value' => t('Delect Selected'),
                    '#submit' => 'newsletter_table_form_delete'
              );
              return $form;
            }

            function newsletter_table_form_delete ($form, &$form_state) {
                foreach ($form_state['values']['collections'] as $key => $value) {
                    if ($value) {
                            $delete = db_delete('sms_newsletter')
                            -> execute();
                    }
                }   
            }

Any help is deeply appreciated.

EDIT:
I’ve edited my news_letter_table_form to read:

function newsletter_table_form_delete ($form, $form_state) {
    foreach (($form_state['values']['table']) as $rows) {
            //$delete = db_delete('sms_newsletter')
            //-> execute();
            drupal_set_message ('' . $rows  . '');
    //drupal_set_message ('' . $form_state['values']['table']       . '');
    }
}

And the new output leaves me puzzled as to how I’d identify selected rows, and delete them from the database. Using the above newsletter_table_form_delete I get the following output:

1. If I select the top row nothing happens
2. If I select the second row the output is 1
3. If I select the third row the output is 2 and so on
4. If I select multiple rows the output is an unordered html list of the selected rows.

I’m curious now how I could take what I have now and change it so I can delete selected rows from the database.

Thanks again!

Answer 1

Try changing

  $form['delete'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => t('Delect Selected'),
        '#submit' => 'newsletter_table_form_delete'
  );

to

  $form['delete'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => t('Delect Selected'),
        '#submit' => array('newsletter_table_form_delete') // <-- make this an array
  );

Based on the additional info added in your question edit, I noticed that your tableselect is built without specifying array keys like:

foreach ($results as $line) {
    $rows[] = array(  // <-- No array keys specified here 
        $line->name,
        $line->number,
        $line->email,
    );
}

Since there were no keys specified, the default by PHP is a 0-based index. That is why you are getting no results for the top row, 1 for the second row, and so on.

See the documentation for the tableselect element for an example.

I don’t know what your database table structure looks like but you will probably need to query the Primary Key for the table and include it as array keys to your $rows array. That way, when you process the data in your delete function, you have the Primary Key of the row you want to delete and delete it.