"Aaron Wolski" <aaronjw@martekbiz.com> wrote in message 000a01c33c0b$aa3199b0$0203a8c0@AJW2">news:000a01c33c0b$aa3199b0$0203a8c0@AJW2... > Hi All, > > Trying to get my head around something and want to know if it's possible > first. > > Can PHP and Javascript interact to the point of PHP querying a DB to > find out what records are in use as a variable for another record and > then using JS to A) prevent the user from clicking a delete button; or > B) pop-up a notice telling the user they can delete that particular > record. > > Hope that makes sense.. any ideas? Sure it does! You looking to use PHP to query a database, create a table (or something) and give the user the ability to dealte [or not] a particular record from the displayed info. Snce you havn't told us how your displaying your data, nor how a user can kill a record, I will make some assumptions and you can go from there. I would display this info ina table stlye, rows and columns to dispaly the data from the database. Each row would have a checkbox on it so I can select several items at once and then have a DELETE button at the bottom and all the selected records will go away. Or you can place a DELETE button on EACH row to remove that particular record right then. Either way works. So now the question, how can server-side PHP tell client-side JS that this record can be modified and that record can not? Right? Simple, add a DISABLED attribute to the checkbox or individual record DELETE button (as descirbed above). If something in your record from the database says that this particular record can NOT be edited, then add the DISABLED aatribute to the Form Element (checkbox or button). And on the client-side, the HTML will take care of letting the user kill a record or not. Does this help? walter -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
