mdmartiny Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Hello Everyone, I am writing a simple CMS system for someone. I am having trouble getting the delete function to work. I pick the user that I want to remove from the system. I verify that this is the right person to remove. Then the record is deleted from the database. The part that picks the person and verifies that it is the right person to remove from the database work fine. It is the part that actually deletes the record. It takes me back to the pick_user.php. If someone could help me with this I would appreciate it This is the code from the show_user_del.php <?php if (!$_POST[id]) { header ("LOCATION: pick_user.php"); exit; } if ($_COOKIE[auth] != "ok") { header("Location: ../login.php"); } require('../includes/auth_user.php'); //build and issue query $sql = "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE id = '$_POST[id]'"; $result = mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $f_name = $row['f_name']; $l_name = $row['l_name']; $username = $row['username']; $password = $row['password']; } ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Add Classified Ad</title> </head> <body> <h2><em>Delete user from Database</em></h2> <h3>User being deleted <?php echo "$f_name $l_name"; ?></h3> <form method="POST" action="do_delete_user.php"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo "$_POST[id]"; ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="f_name" value="<?php echo "$f_name"; ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="l_name" value="<?php echo "$l_name"; ?>" /> <p> <strong>Name:</strong> <?php echo "$f_name $l_name"; ?> </p> <p> <strong>Username:</strong> <?php echo "$username"; ?> </p> <p> <strong>Password:</strong> <?php echo "$password"; ?> </p> <p> <input type="submit" name="submit" id="name" value="Delete User" /> </p> </form> <p><a href="../admin_menu.php">Return to Administration Menu</a></p> </body> </html> When the submit button is clicked in the above code. It is supposed to bring you to the page below saying that the record was deleted. When the submit button is clicked it sends you back to the pick user page. <?php if ((!$_POST[f_name]) || (!$_POST[l_name])) { header ("LOCATION: show_user_del.php"); exit; } if ($_COOKIE[auth] != "ok") { header("Location: ../login.php"); } require('../includes/auth_user.php'); $sql = "DELETE FROM $table WHERE id = '$_POST[id]'"; $result = mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <h1>User has been removed</h1> <h2><em>User <?php echo "$_POST[f_name] $_POST[l_name]"; ?> has been deleted from the <?php echo "$table"; ?> table</em></h2> <p><a href="pick_user.php">Delete another person</a></p> <p><a href="../admin_menu.php">Administration Menu</a></p> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboangel11 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 $sql = "DELETE FROM $table WHERE id = '$_POST[id]'";$result = mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die(mysql_error()); you need to define the name of the table you are deleting the user id from. then: WHERE id='$id' instead of the post id. Hopefully that works for you. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/#findComment-1169252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmartiny Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 That did not work... The table is defined in the auth_user.php which I require at the beginning Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/#findComment-1169258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Have you echoed the query string to be sure it contains the values you'd expect it to contain? If it did, what happens if you paste that output into phpMyAdmin and execute the query that way? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/#findComment-1169261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmartiny Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 I tried that and at first it did not work I went back and removed the section of code from the script if ((!$_POST[f_name]) || (!$_POST[l_name])) { header ("LOCATION: show_user_del.php"); exit; } if ($_COOKIE[auth] != "ok") { header("Location: ../login.php"); } it then worked perfectly fine with no problems. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/#findComment-1169264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdmartiny Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 OK... I have no idea what is going on. It is back to not working. I will have to play around with it when I get home from work tomorrow and see what is up I also tried running the query in myadmin and it worked. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/226538-cant-get-delete-function-to-work/#findComment-1169266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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