Chapter 7. Updating and Deleting Entries

In this chapter, you'll learn how to modify and delete an existing entry. To accomplish this, you need to do the following in your application:

• Create administrative links (edit and delete)

• Display the administrative links in index.php

• Populate the admin form with entry information if you're editing

• Modify .htaccess to pass a URL to admin.php

• Check whether submitted form values are edits or new entries

• Update entries in the entries table

• Check whether an entry is marked for deletion

• Remove deleted entries from the entries table