Passing hidden value between scripts

[transparencia]

I have a PHP blog that has a comment view.php page. This page shows all the comments on the database and below each comment a button to delete. I have a delete.php page that actually deletes the comment.

 

How can I pass the comment ID from view.php to delete.php, internally (without using URL) so that delete.php knows which comment to delete?

[AngelG107]

you can try something like this :

 

<?php

$id_val = 1;

?>
<form action="delete.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="del_id" value="<?php echo $id_val; ?>" >
</form>

 

that's the HTML form , it should go in the view.php file

 

<?php

// add your db connection procedure here.

$id = $_POST['del_id'];

$query = "DELETE FROM comments WHERE id='$id'";
mysql_query($query);

?>

 

this should go on the delete.php file

[Felex]

nop, you need some JS code to add your script. you need only one hidden input and a javascript function which runs when link is clicked with onClick attribute.

JS function needs to get the id of link and assign it to hidden input, so on, automatically submit the form