Posted by Sean Barton on 02/06/06 11:52

to make the information appear in a standard form you need to put
everything in a table. header is simply a way of saying do your titles
here. ie:

Table
Name Sex Age Action
---------------------------------------------------------
bob M 20 Delete


the rows above the data is the header.

also i have one concern. your not storing age in a database are you??
be wary that age is a number and needs to be updated every year. what
you need to be storing is date of birth and working out the age from
there if you want to. it saves a lot of database errors in the future.

as my peers suggested validate everything. there is a variable in
$_SERVER called 'HTTP_REFERER' i think it may help. validate who is
calling the page and nobody but the page you want can access the delete
function.

dont delete anything from the database. modify the table while it is
still small. add in a checkbox field called active and set default to
yes. then modify your query for the page you want so. select * from
people where active=yes;

Good Luck

Sean Barton

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