Rudimentary is in the eye of the beholder. ;)
On 9/24/07, Steve Finkelstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> So I'm trying to do something rather simple, but having difficulty
> accomplishing it. I'm basically giving the user an option to delete a
> row from a table within a div, using something similar to this on the
> server-side:
>
> if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) { exit; }
>
> $html = '<table>';
> $html .= '<tr>';
> // count here basically just keeps track of a
> // neatly aligned table
> $count=0;
> foreach($alpha_notes as $note) {
> $html .= "<td><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"
>
> onclick=\"removeNote('".$note[ID]."','".$note[NAME]."')\">delete</a> $note[NAME]</td>";
> $count++;
> if(($count % 2 == 0)) {
> $html .= "</tr><tr>";
> }
> }
> $html .= '</tr></table>';
>
> My issue is, if the user has deleted their 'last' available row, I
> want something to come up such as "This table has no more information
> left." I tried doing that with the following:
>
> function removeNote(id,name) {
> if(confirm("Are you sure you wish to delete: "+name+"?")) {
> // ajax code here to remove note.
> $.ajax({
> url: "/dbserver.php",
> type: "POST",
> data: "delete="+id+"&db=alpha",
> cache: false,
> success: function(html) {
> if(html==="FALSE") {
> $("alpha_notes").empty().insert("There are
> no notes left in alpha.");
> } else {
> $("#alpha_notes").empty().append(html);
> }
> }
> });
> }
> }
>
> Any idea where I went wrong here? I'm assuming it's causing I'm
> returning a data type of HTML so my if() construct here doesn't
> logically make sense.
>
> - sf
>
