Edit a comment

[Dj-Dark-1]

Right ok, I have set up news blogs on the front of my website and you can click on them to see further details and the comments. You can post a comment using the following piece of code on the announcements page:

    <form name="postComment" method="post" action="TheProcess.php">
    <div id="AnnouncementComments">
        <? if($session->logged_in && !$session->banned && !$session->suspended){ ?>
        <div class="post">
            <textarea cols="76" rows="4" onfocus="this.value=''" style="border:1px solid black;" name="comment"><? if($POST['comment']){ echo $POST['comment']; }else{ echo "Post a comment..."; } ?></textarea>
            <input class="button" type="submit" value="Submit" />
            <input type="hidden" name="newcomment" value="1" />
            <input type="hidden" name="announcementid" value="<? echo $AnnouncementId; ?>" />
            <? echo $form->error("comments"); ?>
        </div>
        <? } ?>
    </form>

I'll come to this bit in a minute:

<textarea cols="76" rows="4" onfocus="this.value=''" style="border:1px solid black;" name="comment"><? if($POST['comment']){ echo $POST['comment']; }else{ echo "Post a comment..."; } ?></textarea>

Ok, that works and comments are submitted using coding contained in TheProcess.php. Now in each comment, I have an options drop down box containing options such as delete comment, report comment, edit comment. When one of these buttons is pressed, it activates this code on TheProcess.php page:

   function actionComment(){
      global $session, $form, $database;
      $CommentId = $_POST['commentid'];
      $CommentInfo = $database->getInfoComment($CommentId);
      $AnnouncementId = $CommentInfo['announcement_id'];
      $Action = $_POST['actions'];
      if($Action == 'moderate'){
        if($session->isNewMod()){
            header("Location: moderate.php?type=comment&id=$CommentId");
        }else{
            $field = "commentactions";
            $form->setError($field, "You don not have permission to moderate this comment");
            header("Location: announcements.php?id=$AnnouncementId");
        }
      }else{
          $retval = $session->actionComment($CommentId, $Action);
          header("Location: announcements.php?id=$AnnouncementId");
      }
   }

Now my action is edit, so I'm now referred to $session->actionComment.

<?
    function actionComment($CommentId, $Action){
        global $form, $database;
        //CommentId is the comment to be actioned
        //Announcementid is the id of the announcement
        //Poster is the poster of the comment
        $CommentInfo = $database->getInfoComment($CommentId);
        $Comment = $CommentInfo['comment'];
        $AnnouncementId = $CommentInfo['announcement_id'];
        $Poster = $CommentInfo['poster'];
        if($Action == 'edit' && ($session->isNewMod() || $Poster == $session->username)){
            ?>
            <form method="post" name="announcements.php">
                <input type="hidden" name="comment" value="<? echo $Comment; ?>" />
                <script>javascript:this.form.submit();</script>
            </form>
            <?
        }else{
            $field = "commentactions";
            $form->setError($field, "You do not have permission to edit this comment");
        }

What I want is for when the user clicks edit, they can edit their comment in the original box they posted in it and then hit submit again? So what I tried was for in the $session->actionComment, I sent a variable back then in the original announcements page. I said if this variable exists, then display it in the textarea. This didn't work, so does anyone have any ideas how I could get to this to work?

Sorry for the long-winded question and I look forward to hearing your suggestions 🙂

[Dj-Dark-1]

Can anybody help? Do you need any more information?

[anakadote]

I'd like to see this part: "Now in each comment, I have an options drop down box containing options such as delete comment, report comment, edit comment. When one of these buttons is pressed, it activates this code on TheProcess.php page"

Also, I wouldn't recommend using a function to output an html form.

[Dj-Dark-1]

As you requested:

            echo "<form name=\"comment_options\" method=\"post\" action=\"TheProcess.php\">";
                echo "<select name=\"actions\" style=\"width:180px;\" onchange=\"this.form.submit()\">";
                    echo "<option>Select an action</option>";
                    echo "<option>________________</option>";
                    if($session->isNewMod() || $Poster == $session->username){
                        echo "<option value=\"edit\">Edit Comment</option>";
                        echo "<option value=\"delete\">Delete Comment</option>";
                        if($session->isNewMod()){
                            echo "<option value=\"hide\">Hide Comment</option>";
                            echo "<option value=\"moderate\">Moderate Comment</option>";
                        }
                    }else{
                        echo "<option value=\"report\">Report Abuse</option>";
                    }
                echo "</select>";
                echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"commentaction\" value=\"1\" />";
                //$AnnouncementId2 = $AnnouncementComments[$i]['announcement_id']; //Called 2 for the post data action
                $CommentId = $AnnouncementComments[$i]['id'];
                echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"commentid\" value=\"$CommentId\" />";
                //echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"annoucementid\" value=\"$AnnouncementId2\" />";
            echo "</form>";

What I want is for when the user clicks edit, it goes back to the announcements page and the post comment box but it contains their message and when they hit submit it updates the comment. I haven't fixed the submit button yet to do that but I want is just when they click edit, their original message will appear in the box that's why I was trying to send post variables in a php form.

So any ideas?