AJAX Delete by Checkbox?

[alphacooler]

I'm a bit stumped as to how to approach this problem. I have a mail interface that shows message titles with a check box next to them which allows multiple messages to be deleted at once(very standard). But how can I do this AJAX style without a page refresh? Currently I just use a foreach $_POST['checkbox'] and loop through delete queries with PHP alone.

But I would like to use JS to grab all of the recordID's that need to be deleted and then somehow get them over to a php script.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Xaqte]

Personally, I would recommend using a library to perform your AJAX functions (why reinvent the wheel?), but that's my two cents.

If you were using prototype:

var params = Form.serialize('checkboxformname');
new Ajax.Request('youphpscript.php', {
   method: "post",
   postBody: params,
   asynchronous: true
});

You can even add more code to add a progress indicator.

Let us know your results!

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[alphacooler]

Xagte,

Thanks so very much. That worked out beautifully. I had never given the prototype lib a chance because most of my AJAX is pretty straightforward and I thought it would be overkill, but I can put up with an extra 40k on some of my scripts if it saves me THIS much work!

Thanks again.