Redirecting..

[Anon]

I have a page which has delete button. I want it so if you click on delete, it will ask you if you are sure? and if ok is pressed, it will delete certain records... if not, it will reload the same page or do nothing. Pls help 🙁

[Anon]

I use this, but if the user disables javascript it won't work at all:

<?
if ( $action == "delete" ) {
?>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
var sTest = confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this forum?');
if (!sTest) {
history.go(-1);
}
//--></script>
<?
[ do delete ]
}
?>

[Anon]

Very quick and dirty, but you should get the idea. Make sure there is NO output to the browser, not even white space, before the header() call.

<?
if ( $confirm == "on") {
delete it . . .
header("Location: other_page");

} elseif ( $pagetodelete != "" ) {

print "<a href='$PHP_SELF?confirm=on&pagetodelete=$pagetodelete'>Are you sure?</a>";

} else {

print "<a href='$PHP_SELF?pagetodelete=whatever'>Click to delete this</a>";
}
?>

[Anon]

thx guys.. i will try that 🙂

[Anon]

Actually... heheh that's not the way to do it, I thought before I wrote, better use this instead:

<?
if ( $action == "delete" ) {
?>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!--
var sTest = confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this?');
if (!sTest) {
location = 'cancelpage.php';
} else {
location = 'thispage.php?action=deleteapp';
}
//--></script>
<?
} else if ( $action == "deleteapp" ) {
[delete]
}
?>

The previous example I gave looked nice, and seemed to work, however, cancel (pressing no) would trigger the delete procedure anyway since php is being parsed (the server side) before the javascript is (client side)

Silly me ;-)