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[billy reisinger]

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, so this may not apply
to you.  I'll throw it out there anyway:  If you have many things on
one page that a user could edit or delete, it may be easier for the
user if you provide them with a way of doing them all at once.  In
other words, use a toggle next to each item (a select widget, radio
button, whatever) and have a "Edit Selected" or "Delete Selected'
button at the top and bottom of the list.  PHPMyAdmin does this too,
and I agree, it is a great peice of software.  Just a thought!
Cheers

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Billy Reisinger
billy.reisinger at gmail.com
410.736.0148

On 11/21/05, Daniel Krook <krook at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > <input type="submit" name="submit[$row_id]" value="Edit"/> <input
> > > type="submit" name="submit[$row_id]" value="Del"/>
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> > Seems like this would be better as hyperlinks rather than forms.
> >
> > --Dan
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> > I thought of that, and again, it sure would be much
> > easier. But doesn't
> > that violate the W3C recommendation for get versus post. Isn't a
> > Hyperlink simulating a get submission, which should not be used for
> > "actions" that modify a database.
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> Yep, in theory GET requests should be side-effect free, so the instinct is
> not to use links... If only for one lesson learned the hard way... What if
> a spider or recursive wget hits this page (and all you have to stop the
> requests for the normal user are JavaScript confirms)?
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> Daniel Krook, Content Tools Developer
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