PHP CMS Trouble - php

Question

I am in the middle of creating a CMS in PHP & MySQL for the company I work for and have hit a bump in the road.
So I have a table that fetches and lists everything from a table, then next to each record is an edit button.
This button has the following code:
<?php
echo '<td><form method="POST" action="editRecord.php?id='.$id.'">
<input type="submit" name="Edit"></form></td>';
?>
Which then obviously goes to that page, however on the next page i have the following code and it's not running anything.
I don't understand why it's not fetching the information from the database if I have given it the ID...
include 'login/connection.php';
$id = $row['id'];
$result = $db->query("SELECT * FROM vehicleOrderForm WHERE id = ' $id ' ");
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
That code is at the start and then further down is this;
<?php
echo $row["id"];
$id = $row["id"];
$make = $row["make"];
$varient = $row["varient"];
$stockno = $row["stockno"];
$transmission = $row["transmission"];
$cc = $row["cc"];
$colour = $row["colour"];
$delivery = $row["delivery"];
$stock = $row["stock"];
$sold = $row["sold"];
$customer = $row["customer"];
$tax = $row["tax"];
$comments = $row["comments"];
?>
<div>
<h1><?php echo $id; ?></h1>
</div>
<form method="POST" action="">
<p>Make:</p>
<?php echo '<input type="text" name="make" value="'.$make.'" />;' ?>
<p>Varient:</p>
<input type="text" name="varient" value=" <?php echo $varient; ?>" /> <br />
<p>Stock Number:</p>
<input type="email" name="stockno" value="<?php echo $stockno; ?>" /> <br />
<p>Transmission:</p>
<input type="number" name="transmission" value="<?php echo $transmission; ?>" /> <br />';
<p>CC:</p>
<input type="username" name="cc" value="<?php echo $cc; ?>" /> <br />';
<p>Colour:</p>
<input type="text" name="colour" value="<?php echo $colour; ?>" /> <br />';
<p>Expected Delivery:</p>
<input type="text" name="delivery" value="<?php echo $delivery; ?>"/> <br />';
<p>In Stock:</p>
<input type="text" name="stock" value="<?php echo $stock; ?>"/> <br />';
<p>Status:</p>
<input type="text" name="sold" value="<?php echo $sold; ?>"/> <br />';
<p>Customer:</p>
<input type="text" name="customer" value="<?php echo $customer; ?>"/> <br />';
<p>Tax:</p>
<input type="text" name="tax" value="<?php echo $tax; ?>"/> <br />';
<p>Comments:</p>
<input type="text" name="comments" value="<?php echo $comments; ?>"/> <br />';
<input type="Submit" name="Edit" value="Edit">';
</form>
If anyone can understand it, that would be great.

Answer 1

That form around the Edit button looks like it's totally useless.. You can't sent the form with POST method, and attach an id to the action url: that param won't be sent.
Solution 1: If you can, I would suggest you to switch to GET param and use an anchor. Like this:
<?php echo '<td>Edit</td>'; ?>
And edit your code on page editRecord.php as follows:
$id = $_GET['id']; // you need to receive the param from the url
Solution 2: If you want to keep the <form>, you should write the following code:
<?php
echo '<td><form method="POST" action="editRecord.php"> '.
'<input type="hidden" name="id" value="'.$id.'" />'.
'<input type="submit" name="Edit"></form></td>';
?>
And on page editRecord.php:
$id = $_POST['id']; // you need to receive the param from the url