Re: Associating table id...

You have set the value of the id input element to the literal string 'id'. What you really want to do is set the id element to the primary key of the row in question. To use your coding style: ... $id = sprintf(mysql_result($result,$count,"pk_field")); echo "</td><td><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"id\" value=\"$id\">remove</td></tr>\n"; ... Pete Jas wrote:

I sincerely wish someone could give me some insight as to what I am doing wrong here. I have been scouring php.net for any website that has a good tutorial or article on how to pass the variables from page to page while assigning a variable a whole record set from a database. If anyone has run into the same problem that I am having please give me a shove in the right direction. Thanks in advance, Jas "Jas" <jlgerfen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20020222171309.16939.qmail@pb1.pair.com...

Ok I have been working on this function to delete an item from a mysql database and so far I have not had any success. Here is the problem I am having (after alot of headaches), I need to be able to associate a

checkbox

to a record or a set of records... For example, page 1 queries a database and pulls the results into a table and in that table is a form with a checkbox for each record pulled from said database... code is here... <?php require '../path/to/db.php'; //connection script $result = @mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cur_inv",$dbh) or die("Could not execute query, please try again later"); echo "<table border=\"0\" class=\"table-body\" width=\"100%\"><form name=\"rem_inv\" method=\"post\" action=\"done2.php3\"> <tr><td align=\"center\" colspan=\"3\"><font size=\"4\"><B>Current Inventory</B></font><hr color=\"333333\"></td></tr>"; $count = -1; while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $count ++; echo "<tr><td width=\"30%\"><B>Type Of Car: </B></td><td>"; printf(mysql_result($result,$count,"car_type")); echo "</td><td><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"id\" value=\"id\">remove</td></tr>\n"; echo "rest of fields in database"; } echo "<tr><td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"delete\" value=\"delete\"></td></tr></form></table>"; ?> Now what I need to do is to have the checkbox item be associated with all one record set. Table structure is here.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- | id | car_model | car_type | car_year | car_price | car_vin | dlr_num | ---------------------------------------------------------------------

| 0 | ford           | bronco    | 1997      | 6700       | vin#       |

dlr

#     |

--------------------------------------------------------------------- etc. etc. From the first page it links to page which queries the db and deletes the selected records... however, I am not able to get the "id" to be

associated

with the records in the table... the deletion script is as follows.... <?php require '../path/to/db.php'; $table_name = "cur_inv"; $sql = "DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE id = '$id'"; echo($sql); $result = mysql_query($sql,$dbh) or die(mysql_error()); print("record deleted"); ?> If anyone has ever run into this please help... I am still fairly new to

php

and mysql and there is definately something I am missing here and I think its because I need to associate the checkbox with the id and the id field from the database does not seem to be linked to the rest of the record in said fields... Thanks in advance, Jas And yes I do know I posted the same question yesterday... I still cannot figure this one out.