Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

An Example

We now have enough information to build an example using some of the techniques discussed in this hour. Our brief is to build a quick and dirty script to enable a site editor to change the prices in the products database created in Listing 12.2. The administrator should also be able to remove elements from the database and add new ones. The page will not be hosted on a publicly available server, so security is not an issue for this project.

First, we must build a form that incorporates all the elements in the database. The user will be able to change any price using a text field and choose which items to delete using a check box. She will also have two text fields for adding a new item to the database. Listing 12.6 shows the code ...