delete items that are checked without $_POST php - php

Question

I've stuck with the following issue:
I have a table with texts and each one has a checkbox next to it. I also have a button-like link "Delete selected". What I want is to give the ability to the user to select many texts through checkboxes and delete the selected all together. The problem is tha I don't want to use a form so I can't use $_POST so I suppose I have to use $_SESSION. I have used sessions before but I don't know how to combine them with checkboxes..
if you could give me some tips or examples I would be very gratefull..
parts of my code to give you a clue..
view_texts.php
<?php
$sql="SELECT * FROM texts";
$res=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$i=1;
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
?>
<tr>
<td><input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="<?php echo $row['id']?>"/></td>
<td><?php echo $i; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['title']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo substr($row['description'],0,20); ?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['page_id']; ?></td>
<td><img src="images/user_edit.png" alt="" title="" border="0" /> </td>
<td><a href="delete_text.php?id=<?php echo $row['id'];?>" class="ask"><img src="images/trash.png" alt=""
title="" border="0" /></a></td>
</tr>
<?php
$i++;
}
?>
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delete_selected_texts.php
<?php
if (isset($_POST['check']))
{
foreach ($_POST['check'] as $value)
{
$sql = "DELETE FROM texts WHERE id =".$value;
mysql_query ($sql);
}
}
?>
this is the code that i use for textboxes inside a form tag.

Answer 1

If you're stuck on not using a form, for whatever reason, you're looking at using javascript and sending an AJAX request on the POST instead. I'd recommend using jQuery, as that greatly simplifies the process of selecting the elements you want to target.
It would look something like this...
$(document).function(){
$(":checkbox").click(function(e){
var deleteItem = $("input:id").val();
$.ajax({
type: "POST";
data: deleteItem;
url: "path/to/a/file.php";
success: function(data){
if (data="success"){
$(this).css("backgroundcolor", "blue");
} else {
alert("failed to find item");
}
}
});
}
You would need then to have a file that the Ajax request sends the data to that will build a list of items to delete/take items off that list, which will be stored and called up when the delete_selected_texts.php is called up to be deleted.
NB.: The jQuery above hasn't been checked. There's an excellent chance of there being several errors in there.