Warning

[Janjan]

Hello guys,

I've just written a delete script for my news section.
New, When I push 'delete', The message is removed, so far, so good.
But I would like to display a warning before removing the message.
Something like "Do you really want to remove this newspost"?
How can I do this?

<?php

// includes
include('../conf.php');
include('../functions.php');

// check for record ID
if ((!isset($GET['id']) || trim($GET['id']) == ''))
{
die('No records!');
}

// open database
$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ('Unable to connect!');

// select database
mysql_select_db($db) or die ('Unable to select database!');

// generate and execute query
$id = $_GET['id'];
$query = "DELETE FROM news WHERE id = '$id'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . mysql_error());

// close database connection
mysql_close($connection);

// print result
echo "delete succesfull.<br/>";
echo "<a href='list.php'>Go to the list</a>.";
?>

Thank you guys!

[bradgrafelman]

When posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

..

[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.

One way to do this is a simple bit of Javascript:

<input type="submit" value="Delete" onclick="return confirm('Are you SURE you wish to delete this message?')">

Otherwise, you could create an interim page that asks them to confirm the deletion (you could store the message ID or whatever in a hidden form field on this interim page).

[Janjan]

Hi,

I've tried this in the header of my script, but it does not show a warning.
What am I doing wrong?

[bradgrafelman]

Show us what you tried.