design considerations?

mlaba1

Hi all,
I need to collect a few records of data from a db and display with edit/delete record functiionality. I currently output each record as it is collected from the db in a row of an html table. Each row has an associated radio button. At the bottom of the table is an edit and delete button. The idea is the user selects a radio button and clicks edit or delete. I then test to make sure a radio was selected with javascript and if so, return the index of the associated row in the table. Here is a snippet of the edit button:

This is my edit button. Question is...well, I'm thinking I need to pass the radio index to a session varaible and then submit the form. But I don't know how to do that in this peice of code above. I don't feel like I'm doing this right. Can someone tell me if this is correct?

drawmack

actually you don't need that at all. Use the product's id as the radio button value. Then just get the value of your radio button and you know what record to edit.

mlaba1

good...good. I like that. I'll set the value of each radio button to a form var which equals the index of the record I need to edit or delete. But, I still need to do some form of validation to make sure the user has actually selected a radio button. How do I write the code in the onClick to submit if the return value of the validation function (getSelectedRadio) is not -1?

Am I more on track now?

LordShryku

Dude, don't double post. That's just annoying.

mlaba1

sorry about that but I assumed that the topic related to both groups. You must be a real expert or you wouldn't be surfing all the groups...right? So, know my thought is to go with the radio button thing and change the edit button to a submit to trigger the form to post...is that good? whadayathink?

pjleonhardt

most ppl on these boards cover all the forums, so no need to double post, ur question will get read.

2nd,
whatever script you are running to run the database check or w/e, you can add a line or two to check to see which radio button has the value, if none --> the user didnt select a radio button and redirect to the form with the appropriate error message

mlaba1

OK, no more double posting...I promise :-) Now, I think I see my problem. I'm trying to force things here and I shouldn't. So, I have a table with a row of records. Each record has a radio button associated with it. The name (or value?)of each radio is the key of the record displayed in that row. I want to post the form, test to make sure a radio was selected (if not display an error page) or using the name (value?) of the selected radio, post my query..... First, does this sound right? If so, how in the world do I test if a radio was selected in php? Sorry for the dopie questions....