Get data from HTML table using PHP post - php

Question

<form action="book.php" method="post">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>FlightID</td>
<td>From</td>
<td>Destination</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td name="flightID" value="1">1</td>
<td name="From" value="Sydney">Sydney</td>
<td name="Destination" value="Bali">Bali</td>
<td class="tdBook"><button class="btnBook" type=submit name="booking"> Book </button>
</tr>
<tr>
<td name="flightID" value="2">2</td>
<td name="From" value="London">London</td>
<td name="Destination" value="HongKong">Hong Kong</td>
<td class="tdBook"><button class="btnBook" type=submit name="booking"> Book </button>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
I created a table like this. At the end of each row, it has a book button.
What I am trying to do is when the user clicked the button, the selected row data(ID,From,Des) will pass to the 'book.php', then the PHP file will do the rest of the job.
But I tried to catch the value using $_POST['name'] in 'book.php', like this
<?php
if(isset($_POST['booking'])){
$ID = $_POST['flightID'];
$From = $_POST['From'];
$To = $_POST['Destination'];
}
?>
It shows all of those values are undefined. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem is that the values in <td> cannot be passed from the form to your PHP file by themselves. You could use hidden inputs for this. Additionally, each row in the table should be its own form to assure that all data is not submitted at the same time.
Try this:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>FlightID</td>
<td>From</td>
<td>Destination</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<form action="book.php" method="post">
<td><input type="hidden" name="flightID" value="1">1</td>
<td><input type="hidden" name="From" value="Sydney">Sydney</td>
<td><input type="hidden" name="Destination" value="Bali">Bali</td>
<td class="tdBook"><button class="btnBook" type=submit name="booking"> Book </button>
</form>
</tr>
<tr>
<form action="book.php" method="post">
<td><input type="hidden" name="flightID" value="2">2</td>
<td><input type="hidden" name="From" value="London">London</td>
<td><input type="hidden" name="Destination" value="HongKong">Hong Kong</td>
<td class="tdBook"><button class="btnBook" type=submit name="booking"> Book </button>
</form>
</tr>
</tbody>

Answer 2

i have the same problem as yours and tried to create an answer so i came up with this code to indicate each row in an HTML table with a special name using loops, i can now take the specified row and do as much PHP operations as i can with it without disturbing the table as a whole and it was well synchronized with my database, hope it helps!
and btw the whole "marking each row with a special name" code is in usersTable.php
users.sql
create table users(
id int,
username varchar(50),
password varchar(50)
);
users.php
<?php
$host = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$database = "wdl2hw4db";
$conn = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database);
if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
die("can't connect to the Database" . mysqli_connect_errno());
}else{
echo "Database is connected" . "<br>";
}
if (isset($_POST['insert'])){
$idN1= $_POST['id'];
$usernameN1 = $_POST['username'];
$passwordN1 = $_POST['password'];
$query = "insert into users(id, username, pass) values ('".$idN1."' , '".$usernameN1."' , '".$passwordN1."' )";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
}else if (isset($_POST['update'])){
$idN2 = $_POST['id'];
$usernameN2 = $_POST['username'];
$passwordN2 = $_POST['password'];
$query = "update users set pass = '". $passwordN2 ."'where id = " . $idN2;
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
}else if (isset($_POST['Display'])){
header('Location: usersTable.php');
}
echo "<br>";
?>
<form method="post">
ID: <input type="text" name="id" ><br><br>
username: <input type="text" name="username" ><br><br>
password: <input type="password" name="password" ><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="insert" value="insert">
<input type="submit" name="Display" value="Display">
</form>
userTable.php
<?php
$host = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$database = "wdl2hw4db";
$conn = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database);
$query = "select * from users";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
echo "<table border=\"6px\"><thead><tr><th>ID</th><th>username</th><th>password</th><th>Delete</th><th>Update</th></tr></thead>";
$i = 1;
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo "<tr><form method='post'><td>" . $row['id'] . "</td><td>" . $row['username'] . "</td><td>" . $row['pass'] . "</td><td><input type='submit' name='Delete" . $i . "' value='Delete'></td><td><input type='submit' name='Update" . $i . "' value='Update'><input type='text' name='UpdateText" . $i . "' placeholder='insert new password here'></td></form></tr>";
$i++;
}
echo "</table>";
$i = 1;
$result2 = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
while ($row2 = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result2)) {
if (isset($_POST['Delete' . $i])) {
$usernameN4 = $row2['username'];
$query2 = "delete from users where username ='" . $usernameN4 . "'";
$result2 = mysqli_query($conn, $query2);
header("Refresh:0");
break;
}
$i++;
};
$i = 1;
$result3 = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
while ($row3 = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result3)) {
if (isset($_POST['Update' . $i]) && $_POST['UpdateText' . $i] != null ) {
$id4 = $row3['id'];
$Utext = $_POST['UpdateText' . $i];
$query3 = "update users set pass ='" . $Utext . "' where id = " . $id4;
$result3 = mysqli_query($conn, $query3);
header("Refresh:0");
break;
}
$i++;
};
mysqli_free_result($result);