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    copied!<p>I am trying to make a page with all the information from a database, where a user would be able to edit or delete rows. I don't quite understand how to make the buttons work. I am a beginner in programming, would be really grateful if you could help me.</p> <p>My code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="" method="post"&gt; &lt;?php $sqlquery="SELECT artistId, firstname, lastname, nationality, dateofBirth, otherInfo, image from $artists order by 1"; $result = mysqli_query($connect, $sqlquery); if($result) { echo "&lt;table id=\"artists\"&gt;"; while ($sqlRow=mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { echo "&lt;tr&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo"&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textid[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['artistId']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textfirstname[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['firstname']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textlastname[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['lastname']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textnation[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['nationality']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textdateofbirth[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['dateofBirth']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textotherinfo[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['otherInfo']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"text\" name=\"textimage[]\" value=\"".$sqlRow['image']."\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"submit\" onclick=\"return confirm('Edit the record?')\" name=\"edit[]\" value=\"Edit\" /&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"submit\" name=\"delete[]\" value=\"Delete\" onclick=\"return confirm('Delete the record?')\"/&gt;"; echo "&lt;input type=\"reset\" name=\"reset[]\" value=\"Cancel\" /&gt;"; echo "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;/tr&gt;"; } } print '&lt;/table&gt;'; if($_POST) { $artistId=$_POST['textid']; $fname=$_POST['textfirstname']; $lname=$_POST['textlastname']; $nation=$_POST['textnation']; $dateofBirth=$_POST['textdateofbirth']; $otherInfo=$_POST['textotherinfo']; $image=$_POST['textimage']; for($i=0;$i&lt;sizeof($artistId);$i++) { if (isset($_POST['edit[$i]'])) { $query="UPDATE $artists set artistId='".$artistId[$i]."', firstname='".$fname[$i]."', lastname='".$lname[$i]."', nationality='".$nation[$i]."', dateofBirth='".$dateofBirth[$i]."', otherInfo='".$otherInfo[$i]."', image='".$image[$i]."' WHERE (artistId='".$sqlRow['artistId']."')"; } } } ?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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