php sending vars

[jonniejoejonson]

Okay I don’t want the code just an explanation how to do this:

Imagine I have a social network website.

I have a page ‘displayFriends.php’ that displays a users friends.

By the name of each listed friend is a delete button…

If a user clicks the delete button… how do I send the necessary variables to ‘deleteFrined.php’ without the user having to leace the page… or if they do have to leave th page then return to the page.

 

i.e. how do you send vars to a php page without that page loading. Many thanks to any responders J

[asmith]

why don't you put deletefriends.php IN displayfriends.php ?

 

then in your form action type the name of displayfriends.php . any click on any button displayfriends.php will load the page again .

[JJohnsenDK]

without that page loading?

 

well thats not possible with php, you will have to use AJAX for that.

 

If you want to solved this you should send the data with a form to deletefriend page and then in deletefriend page redirect the user to displayfriends, when its done deleting. The user will never notice that he/she is forwarded to deletefriend.

 

But again, use AJAX if you dont want the site to refresh.

[papaface]

asmith means:

<?php
if (!$_POST['delete'])
{
//code for deleting friend.
}
else
{
// code for displaying friends.
}
?>

It's pretty simple....

[nikefido]

asmith means:

<?php
if (!$_POST['delete'])
{
//code for deleting friend.
}
else
{
// code for displaying friends.
}
?>

It's pretty simple....

 

This solution I believe is what you are looking for - you design the page to see if the user clicked the Delete button for that friend and run the delete script if so. (Did you make the delete button a link or a submit button? Can you send POST values using links?