How to Approve Comments Using Drop Down Menu

[Shah_Hussain]

Hello Guys,

I have big problem... i have post this problem in alot of forums, but nobody help me.. i have hear from my friend phpbuilder is the best php forum.. so i to i register here..

Can any one tell me how to approve/delete comments using Drop Menu, look at the below example :
Click here to view the example

I want to approve some comments and to delete some comments.... how to do it????

Please can anybody help me... 😕

[sneakyimp]

What you want to do is not at all clear. Perhaps you could explain?

[maxpup979]

If I understand correctly, you have a list of the comments, and you need a dropdown associated with each comment to control the action-
What I would do (assuming that this is all in one form) is name each drop down with the id of the appropriate comment, and when processing the form simply loop across the $_POST, test the value of the dropdown settings, and perform the appropriate action.

Hope that helps.

[Shah_Hussain]

I mean how to approve comments....

I have website, in which user post their comments, but some user post bad words :

for example : there is three comments waiting for approval...

1. Nice Site...
2. bad words bad words..
3. good site keep it up....

okay.. i want to approve the first and third comment, also i want to delete the second comments....

2nd example

i want to Approve/Delete them like this :

1. Nice Site... [ Approve ]
2. bad words bad words.. [ Delete ]
3. good site keep it up.... [ Approve ]

Can anybody help me please

[suntra]

I would go with an array naming system...

Example...

foreach($arrComments as $intComment_ID => $strComment) {
    echo '<p>
' . $strComment . '<br />
<select name="action[' . $intComment_ID . ']">
    <option value="delete">Delete</option>
    <option value="approve">Approve</option>
</select>
</p>' . "\n";
}

And then on the other page...

foreach($_POST['action'] as $intComment_ID => $strAction) {
    switch($strAction) {
        case 'delete':
            // delete code
            break;
        case 'approve':
            // approve code
            break;
    }
}

[Shah_Hussain]

i can't understand, can you please explain that code...... :S

[rulian]

The drop down would have to trigger an Javascript action that would pass the approved / denied request to the server. Be it ajax, or simply an href or form submit, that would depend on how you want to record whether the comment was approved or denied

Lets say for instance the drop down is in a form tag with action to comment_changestatus.php

inside of the form element would be your <select> tag with a javascript trigger. perhaps a hidden varaible to keep which commetn you are approving/denying
like so:
<form action="comment_changestatus.php" name="myformID" method="post" name="mycomment">
<select name="commentID" onChange='document.myformID.submit()'>
<option value='0'>Deny</option>
<option value='1'>Approve</option>
</select><input type="hidden" name="comment" value="COMMENT_ID">

</form>

and then on the PHP page, or even just a PHP_SELF page, you would update the comment accordingly

[Shah_Hussain]

rulian, Thanks ..... but i don't want approve one comment at a time... i want to approve about 10+ comments at a time.......

I know suntra, know how to do this... but he is offline i am waiting for him..............

bye

[sneakyimp]

surround all comments with <form> tag.
supply an approve/disapprove selector for each comment.
have a 'submit' button for the entire page.
set up your php to handle the resulting input.

[Shah_Hussain]

sneakyimp, please can you give me the php script and forms... i don't know how to that.... please sneakyimp please

Waiting for your reply.......

[sneakyimp]

Shah, i'm not here to write code for you. I'm happy to help you learn how. For starters, create a form like this and find a way to get your comments into it.

<form method="post" action="form_handler.php"
 Comment 1:
 Huzzah!  What a marvelous notion
 <select name="comment1">
  <option value="">Select One</option>
  <option value="Approve">Approve</option>
  <option value="Delete">Delete</option>
 </select>

 Comment 2:
 Your mother smells of elderberries!
 <select name="comment1">
  <option value="">Select One</option>
  <option value="Approve">Approve</option>
  <option value="Delete">Delete</option>
 </select>

</form>

[Shah_Hussain]

sneakyimp, Thanks man, now i am understand..... sneakyimp is the best 🙂