Kevin Powell - Community•17mo ago

Delete users from DataBase

I have an website that displays a table with the users that are in the database. I have the function to delete the users but I can't make it work. I have a folder named "Controllers" with every single function to login,logout.... . And I make one named "DeleteController" and in there I want to be the controller of the delete function. And I can't make it work when I click the delete button from the website. If you can help me I can send you the whole folder to look at it! Thanks!

45 Replies

Jochem•17mo ago

it's best to keep everything in public here, so others can help and learn later 🙂 That said, you're using Laravel? Usually in MVC, the Controller is something that handles all the actions for a single Model. ProductController would have a Get, GetAll, Create, Update, and Delete method that would get called depending on the route and method you use to access the product endpoint the connecting tissue is in the route file, that's where you tell the server which URL and Method are necessary to delete something. Can you share your routes file, or at least the relevant section? as for the action itself, I see you're trying to delete something using a query string in an anchor tag, so you'd be using GET. It's generally a bad idea to perform actions based on GET requests that aren't just fetching data. Some robots might crawl your site or some future browser feature might try to prefetch your DELETE link to improve user performance and suddenly all your products are gone. Actions that cause changes in the database need to be a POST, because those will never be crawled or prefetched

zellen99•17mo ago

I took a course, and this is what the teacher did, and right now I want to implement the delete button and I don't know how

zellen99•17mo ago

zellen99•17mo ago

this file controls the routes

Jochem•17mo ago

that's fine, just adding some context, we can try to get this to work what does HomeController look like, and all of DeleteController. If you've got this code on github or something that would be handy, or otherwise please paste them as code blocks (open with ```php on its own line (those are backticks, next to 1 on a QWERTY keyboard), and ending with ``` again on its own like. Kinda like <?php and ?>, but for syntax highlighting in Discord messages)

zellen99•17mo ago

php 
<?php


class HomeController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        session_start();
        if (isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
            // private page
            $data['title'] = 'PRIVATE HOMEPAGE';
            $data['user'] = '<h2>HELLO, <i>' . $_SESSION['user'] . '</i></h2>';
            $user = new UsersModel();
            $data['mainContent'] = $user->displayData();
            echo $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'layoutAuth.html', $data);
        } else {
            // include APP_PATH.VIEWS . 'layout.php';
            $data['title'] = 'HOMEPAGE';
            // $data['mainContent'] = '<h2>HOME SPECIFIC CONTENT</h2>';
            // $data['mainContent'] = $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'list.html', array());
            $data['mainContent'] = $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'list.html', array());
            echo $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'layout.html', $data);
        }
    }
}

php 
<?php


class HomeController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        session_start();
        if (isset($_SESSION['user'])) {
            // private page
            $data['title'] = 'PRIVATE HOMEPAGE';
            $data['user'] = '<h2>HELLO, <i>' . $_SESSION['user'] . '</i></h2>';
            $user = new UsersModel();
            $data['mainContent'] = $user->displayData();
            echo $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'layoutAuth.html', $data);
        } else {
            // include APP_PATH.VIEWS . 'layout.php';
            $data['title'] = 'HOMEPAGE';
            // $data['mainContent'] = '<h2>HOME SPECIFIC CONTENT</h2>';
            // $data['mainContent'] = $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'list.html', array());
            $data['mainContent'] = $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'list.html', array());
            echo $this->render(APP_PATH . VIEWS . 'layout.html', $data);
        }
    }
}

https://github.com/claudiuzav/phpwebsite this is the github repositories

Jochem•17mo ago

I think you might need to push, DeleteController.php is empty https://github.com/claudiuzav/phpwebsite/blob/main/Curs_22(MVC_part2)/myApp/controllers/DeleteController.php

zellen99•17mo ago

i don't have nothin in the DeleteController because what I haved it was not good

php 
<?php
$newUser = new UsersModel;
$newUser->delProducts($_GET['id']);

header("Location: layout.php");

php 
<?php
$newUser = new UsersModel;
$newUser->delProducts($_GET['id']);

header("Location: layout.php");

it was only this

Jochem•17mo ago

hm, in UsersModel.php you're referencing a user table in every query but the Delete one

DELETE FROM `products` WHERE `id` = $id

DELETE FROM `products` WHERE `id` = $id

won't delete anything from the user table

zellen99•17mo ago

I change that, when I try to delete 1 user it says this

zellen99•17mo ago

Jochem•17mo ago

ah, yeah, you need to include the id in the link

zellen99•17mo ago

so I have this website that works https://github.com/claudiuzav/phpwebsite2 the delete works and how it work there I want to implement in this project

Jochem•17mo ago

you have this in the working one:

        echo '<td>' . "<a href='delete.php?id=" . $user['ID'] . "'>DELETE</a>";

        echo '<td>' . "<a href='delete.php?id=" . $user['ID'] . "'>DELETE</a>";

and just this in the non-working one:

Jochem•17mo ago

you're missing the ID parameter, so that href='?page=delete' needs to be something like href='?page=delete&id=" . $user['ID'] . "'

zellen99•17mo ago

now when I click the delete button it redirect me to another page but doesn't delete the user

Jochem•17mo ago

copy and paste the link in the rendered page for the DELETE link?

zellen99•17mo ago

localhost/Curs_22(MVC_part2)/home?page=delete&id=18 I changed the header to header("Location: home"); in the DeleteController

Jochem•17mo ago

you can't use route names in the header call, it should be header("Location: index.php"); wait, do you have RewriteRules set up?

zellen99•17mo ago

class LogoutController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        session_start();
        session_destroy();
        header("location: home");
        exit;
   }
}

class LogoutController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        session_start();
        session_destroy();
        header("location: home");
        exit;
   }
}

yes, I have the .htaccess

Jochem•17mo ago

ah, yeah, then you can use what's defined in that file it's not in the repo, that's why I was confused

zellen99•17mo ago

ohh, sorry

Jochem•17mo ago

no worries

zellen99•17mo ago

Options -Indexes

# IndexIgnore controllers models views

# IndexIgnore *.jpg banner?.png

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ ?page=$1

ErrorDocument 403 /Curs_22(MVC_part2)/errors/error403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /Curs_22(MVC_part2)/errors/error404.html

Options -Indexes

# IndexIgnore controllers models views

# IndexIgnore *.jpg banner?.png

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ ?page=$1

ErrorDocument 403 /Curs_22(MVC_part2)/errors/error403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /Curs_22(MVC_part2)/errors/error404.html

this is what it is in the file

Jochem•17mo ago

it's time to start adding some die('got to here') statements to your code then and print out some other logging info, like the SQL query it's trying to run, and values of interesting variables It's late here, so I need to head off, but if you update the github files I can try to take a look again in the morning. Let me know if you fix it before then though

zellen99•17mo ago

ok thank a lot

Jochem•17mo ago

I hope you figure it out, otherwise I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of it (or someone else will before I'm back online)

zellen99•17mo ago

I hope so

Jochem•17mo ago

you're close though. use print and exit to your advantage and try to debug some stuff. Run the code in your head line by line, see what you think it should do, then confirm that it does do that by printing things out

zellen99•17mo ago

ok, I will do that, thanks hey, I still haven't figured it out https://github.com/claudiuzav/phpwebsite

class DeleteController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        $newUser = new UsersModel();
        $id = $_GET['ID'];
        $deleted = $newUser->delProducts($id);
        if ($deleted) {
            header("Refresh: 1; url= home");
        } else {
            echo "ID is not set.";
        }
    }
}

class DeleteController extends AppController
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->init();
    }
    public function init()
    {
        $newUser = new UsersModel();
        $id = $_GET['ID'];
        $deleted = $newUser->delProducts($id);
        if ($deleted) {
            header("Refresh: 1; url= home");
        } else {
            echo "ID is not set.";
        }
    }
}

I put this in the DeleteController and it says that the Id is not set

Jochem•17mo ago

I'll have a look tomorrow, it's almost 1am here. quick tip though, right above where you do that echo, put print_r($_GET);

zellen99•17mo ago

Array ( [page] => delete )

Array ( [page] => delete )

Jochem•17mo ago

hm, then you're not passing the ID in the query string what does the link look like?

zellen99•17mo ago

Curs_22(MVC_part2)/delete?&id=15

Curs_22(MVC_part2)/delete?&id=15

it's strange

Jochem•17mo ago

drop the &, that's only to differentiate between the first and second query param

zellen99•17mo ago

still the same

Jochem•17mo ago

did you refresh the page and re-click the link?

zellen99•17mo ago

yes

Curs_22(MVC_part2)/delete?id=15

Curs_22(MVC_part2)/delete?id=15

zellen99•17mo ago

Jochem•17mo ago

hm, looking at your RewriteRules in .htaccess, I'm not sure this would work properly with a second parameter: RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ ?page=$1 \w matches [A-Za-z0-9_], and not ?id=15. Even if it did, it would turn the url into something like ?page=delete?id=15 try turning that rule off temporarily by putting a # in front of it, and changing the link to ?page=delete&id=15

zellen99•17mo ago

it is not working

Jochem•17mo ago

right, I'll have to look more tomorrow then, sorry

zellen99•17mo ago

yea no problem, thx

Jochem•17mo ago

I must've missed this because it was late last night, but GET parameters are case sensitive This URL works when I run it on my machine: http://localhost/?page=delete&ID=15 (works being relative, I don't have a db connection and I'm using PHP's builtin webserver which doesn't support htaccess rewrites)

zellen99•17mo ago

it doesn't work, I think is because of the htaccess, but nevermind, I give up thanks for helping me out

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