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Multiple record delete page not deleting records

Thread began 4/15/2019 9:41 am by Mags | Last modified 4/17/2019 2:08 pm by Ray Borduin | 785 views | 11 replies |

Mags

Multiple record delete page not deleting records

Hi Ray, I followed the tutorial on creating a multiple record delete page (although I'm using mySQLi) but when I select records and hit the Delete Selected button, it doesn't delete the records. Would you mind taking a look for me? I've attached the draft page.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

You didn't assign a value to your delete checkbox. It needs a value or else it won't be included in the form submit. You can just set the value to 1.

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Mags

I added value="1" to the checkbox, however it still isn't deleting any records. The checkbox code now looks like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="multidelete_<?php echo($wa_startindex); ?>" id="multidelete_<?php echo($wa_startindex); ?>" value="1" />

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I'd need to debug this to determine why. That was the only issue I spotted. If you give me a URL where I can reproduce and FTP access so I can test and add debug code I'll be able to tell you what is going wrong.

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Mags

Thanks Ray, details in PM.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I didn't notice that you have spaces in your form button name that you are using for the trigger. Spaces aren't allowed in form element names in php, they are automatically converted to underscores when posted and we aren't accounting for that in the trigger. I'll get that updated in a future release.

For now, either rename the form button and re-apply the server behavior with the new trigger, or you can manually update line 38 to:

if (isset($_POST["delete_chcked_items"]) || isset($_POST["delete_chcked_items_x"])) {

Now that I tested, I also see that the checkbox value has to be set to the ID of the record that you want deleted. I've updated both of these on your page and it seems to work now.

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Mags

Thanks for sorting that out, it's working! The behavior generated the name and ID with the space. Might be worth updating the tutorial download file too, as the checkbox code given in that doesn't have a value:

<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" id="checkbox" />

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Can I get a link to the tutorial you are using? I don't think the behavior creates the button. That has to be step in the process. I'll take a look at the tutorial. I've already updated the extension code to replace spaces with underscores, so it will show up in the next build.

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Mags

It's this one: http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Create-a-multiple-record-delete-form

I downloaded the "sample_form_delete.php" file at the top of the page to check how the form and button were constructed. I manually gave the checkbox the name and id "multidelete" and I think the space may have been added when selecting it in the server behavior panel.

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Mags

Hi Ray, just one more question - I'd quite like to include an "Are you sure" popup message when the button is clicked to prevent accidental deletion. I added the following code:

<input name="delete chcked items" type="submit" id="delete check items" value="Delete Selected?" onclick="doublecheck()" />

and the javascript:

<script>
function doublecheck() {
alert("Are you sure?");
}
</script>

but it doesn't do anything. I also tried applying Dreamweaver's default Popup Message Behavior which adds "onclick="MM_popupMsg('Are you sure?')"" to the button but that didn't work either. Is there maybe a conflict with the WA JQuery Validation already on the page? Anything else I could try?

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