How to delete checked row from db - php

Question

I have this deleting sql but can't seem to find out why it's not working :/
After trying to delete a checked row the if($result) does reload the page but the row is still there ... :/
Can someone please help me ?
What am I missing ?
<form name="delete_posts" method="post" action="">
<table class="all_posts">
<tr>
<td class="checkbox"><input type="checkbox" name="select_all" id="select_all" /></td>
<td class="post_title">Title</td>
<td>Auther</td>
<td>Posted</td>
<td>Updated</td>
<td>Category</td>
</tr>
<tr><td class="delete_posts" colspan="6"><input name="delete" type="submit"
id="delete" value="delete"></td></tr>
<?php
$post_set = get_all_posts();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($post_set)){
echo "<tr>
<td><input name=\"checkbox[]\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"checkbox[]\" value=".$row['id']."></td>
<td><a href=\"edit_post.php?edit=".$row['id']."\">" .$row['title']. "</td>
<td>Auther</td>
<td>".date("d. M. 'y", strtotime($row["date"]))."</td>
<td>Update Date</td>
<td>".str_replace("_"," ",$row['category'])."</td>
</tr>";}
// Delete Posts
if(isset($_POST['delete'])){
$checkbox = $_POST['delete'];
$count = count($checkbox);
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
$del_id = $checkbox[$i];
$sql = "DELETE FROM posts WHERE id = $del_id ";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $sql);
}
// if successful redirect to delete_multiple.php
if($result){
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=posts.php\">";
}
}
?>
</table>
</form>
Thanx for helping
Cheers
Chris

Answer 1

I think you have an error in your code where you retrive the checked row : instead of getting the checkbox values ($checkbox = $_POST['checkbox'];) you are getting the delete value ($checkbox = $_POST['delete'];).
Here is the corrected part :
if(isset($_POST['delete'])){
$checkbox = $_POST['checkbox'];
$count = count($checkbox);
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++){
$del_id = $checkbox[$i];
$sql = "DELETE FROM posts WHERE id = $del_id ";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $sql);
}