I'm trying to create a HTML table that lists all the rows in a database table. Then, next to each row I want to have a button so the user can delete that entry. I have created the table but I can't get the buttons to work.
I have been searching around and I found this post How to Call a PHP Function on the Click of a Button but I can't get it to work. I've never used ajax before so I might not understand the code correctly.
Here is the code:
Go through all the data from the table and create a button for each entry
<?php
for ($x = 0; $x < sizeof($data); $x++) {
?>
<input type="submit" class="tableButton" name="<?php echo $x ?>" value="<?php echo $x ?>">
<?php
}
?>
When a tableButton is clicked, send its value to ajax.php
$('.tableButton').click(function () {
var clickBtnValue = $(this).val();
var ajaxurl = 'ajax.php',
data = { 'action': clickBtnValue };
$.post(ajaxurl, data, function (response) {
});
});
ajax.php
Get the value of the button that was pressed and do something with it
<?php
if (isset($_POST['action'])) {
$data = $_POST['action'];
echo $data;
}
?>
Currently I just have it echo the value to test it but it's displaying nothing. What I would have it do is run this query:
DELETE from myTable WHERE id = $data;
Or if someone knows a better way to do this please let me know.
Edit
After doing a lot more searching I found out why this wasn't working how I expected. As I suspected since I've never used AJAX before there was something I missed, I didn't know the echo wouldn't print directly to the screen. I just changed the echo to a delete query and tested that and it works... So the code is fine, but I think I should learn AJAX sometime. Thanks for all the responses.
I'm also aware of the sql injection that is possible here, this was just a quick mock-up, thanks.
