Renegade — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:53:41 +0000

Well, if you'd like to use a form, you could always have an option like a dropdown box or a check box which the user has to select in order to delete. E.g.

Delete selected? (dropdown option)

[Delete]

[ ] Delete selected (check box) [Delete]

greg — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:58:50 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have thought of the redirect to confirmation page option, but opening a new page to confirm deleting, clicking a link, waiting for the image to delete then going back to the previous page is perhaps a long winded process if users want to delete a few images.
Even for one image it is long winded.

I was hoping for an alternative, but I do not know of another way of pop-up options without using javascript, or even another way of activating a response required by clicking a link and having different actions depending on the users selection.

I also thought of using a form in some way, but that must be a sloppy way of going about it.

hmm. Looks like a redirect page is the only option.
Which is more scripting as I would like to give the users who have javascript the option of the simple pop-up confirmation.

Cheers

Renegade — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:59:12 +0000

You could always direct to a page which asks if they want to confirm their action instead of using Javascript.

webwiz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:32:30 +0000

Sadly, I don't have any code to offer you. But if you have used phpMyAdmin to handle your databases, you will notice their "confirm delete" message when you try to drop a table. This is probably what you should aim for.

Although statistics suggest only about 4% have scripting turned off, JS pop-ups increasingly do not work because of the popularity of pop-up blockers.

Cordially, David
(whose sig keeps vanishing)
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