Live Table Edit with Jquery and Ajax
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Live Table Edit with Jquery and Ajax

I love Jquery framework, feels that we can do awesome things. Let’s take a look at how to implement live table edit with Jquery and real time database update using Ajax. This is an interesting concept playing with DOM objects. You know that majority of readers had requested this tutorial, hope you guys like it!

Live table edit with jquery

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Database
Sample database fullnames table columns id, firstname and lastname.
CREATE TABLE fullnames
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
firstname VARCHAR(70),
lastname VARCHAR(70)
);


Live table edit with jquery

TableEdit.php
Displaying records from fullnames table. Take a look at above wire-frame image.
//Table Records
<table>
<?php
include('db.php');
$sql=mysql_query("select * from fullnames");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sql))
{
$id=$row['id'];
$firstname=$row['firstname'];
$lastname=$row['lastname'];
?>
<tr id="<?php echo $id; ?>" class="edit_tr">

<td class="edit_td">
<span id="first_<?php echo $id; ?>" class="text"><?php echo $firstname; ?></span>
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $firstname; ?>" class="editbox" id="first_input_<?php echo $id; ?>" /&gt;
</td>

<td class="edit_td">
<span id="last_<?php echo $id; ?>" class="text"><?php echo $lastname; ?></span>
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $lastname; ?>" class="editbox" id="last_input_<?php echo $id; ?>"/>
</td>

</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>

Javascript Code
Contains javascipt code. $(".edit_tr").click(function(){}- edit_tr is the CLASS name of TR tag. Using $(this).attr("id") calling TR tag ID value. $(".edit_tr").change(function(){} sending the ajax request to table_edit_ajax.php
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".edit_tr").click(function()
{
var ID=$(this).attr('id');
$("#first_"+ID).hide();
$("#last_"+ID).hide();
$("#first_input_"+ID).show();
$("#last_input_"+ID).show();
}).change(function()
{
var ID=$(this).attr('id');
var first=$("#first_input_"+ID).val();
var last=$("#last_input_"+ID).val();
var dataString = 'id='+ ID +'&firstname='+first+'&lastname='+last;
$("#first_"+ID).html('<img src="load.gif" />'); // Loading image

if(first.length>0&& last.length>0)
{

$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "table_edit_ajax.php",
data: dataString,
cache: false,
success: function(html)
{
$("#first_"+ID).html(first);
$("#last_"+ID).html(last);
}
});
}
else
{
alert('Enter something.');
}

});

// Edit input box click action
$(".editbox").mouseup(function()
{
return false
});

// Outside click action
$(document).mouseup(function()
{
$(".editbox").hide();
$(".text").show();
});

});
</script>

table_edit_ajax.php
Simple PHP code, updating fullnames tables records.
<?php
include("db.php");
if($_POST['id'])
{
$id=mysql_escape_String($_POST['id']);
$firstname=mysql_escape_String($_POST['firstname']);
$lastname=mysql_escape_String($_POST['lastname']);
$sql = "update fullnames set firstname='$firstname',lastname='$lastname' where id='$id'";
mysql_query($sql);
}
?>

db.php
PHP database configuration file
<?php

$mysql_hostname = "Host name";
$mysql_user = "UserName";
$mysql_password = "Password";
$mysql_database = "Database Name";
$bd = mysql_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_user, $mysql_password) or die("Could not connect database");
mysql_select_db($mysql_database, $bd) or die("Could not select database");
?>

CSS Code
Styles for TableEdit.php
body
{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
}
.editbox
{
display:none
}
td
{
padding:5px;
}
.editbox
{
font-size:14px;
width:270px;
background-color:#ffffcc;
border:solid 1px #000;
padding:4px;
}
.edit_tr:hover
{
background:url(edit.png) right no-repeat #80C8E5;
cursor:pointer;
}
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118 comments:

  1. Exellent


    Ariel Macintosh™

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  2. Hey nice tutorial....

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  3. thanks a lot mate , thats what i was searching

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  4. Hey nice tutorial.... keep posting... All the best

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  5. Great !! Good thing would be data/cell submission on ENTER key. All the best !!!!

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  6. Awesome thanks, dude

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  7. excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  8. In one word, AWESOME :D

    many many thanks this is just what i was looking for :D

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  9. please add xss blocking method. or just escape the html.

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  10. I love your tutorials are so easy understandable.
    Thnx a lot from Albania

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  11. excellent. Congratulations.

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  12. great work man.....congrats

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  13. Hello Srinivas, thank you so much for your help I love this script it kicks ass, I have used so many of your scripts on my next website projects, you are the man. I really think you should put a donation icon in your website, if you do that i will be the first one to donate in your website, you really makes us happy and you are a life savior and we should appreciate that I will think all user will donate something even 1$ is something for people who does not have enough money, you really should think about this.

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  14. hey srini,
    i was going through the paypal code (http://www.9lessons.info/2011/03/payment-system-with-paypal.html) and the error i am getting is that after successfully doing transaction i am redirected to success page but getting error message. I am not getting the product id there.
    Please Help

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  15. and if i want to add 1 more thing..for example

    Firstname -- Lastname -- Date

    like that..how can i do that, i tryied but that it seems not work.. if u can help, i appreciate it.. nice tutorial btw :)

    [email protected]

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  16. do you have or know of a grid like this out there as a JQuery component - customizable with paging, sort, etc - i am looking to implement a standard AJAX updateable grid but it would be great to just send the grid the db query and let it do all the work while i can customize some elements

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  17. thanks friend, I very much appreciate this important contribution.


    Ariel Macintosh™

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  18. Another awesome tutorial! I need this... :)

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  19. nice example
    :harish soni

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  20. before this tutorial i was a "chimbin" , Excelent...thanks!!

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  21. some errors in the css.

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  22. how can i download the script? i can't download from here...

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  23. nice, i need this script, thank's

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  24. love it thank you.
    is it possible to modify it so when you click on one of the entry to edit will open only the one you clicked on instead of both?

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  25. just awesome great works and thanks for sharing bookmarked and share

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  26. Great work as always !! thanks for the share

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  27. thanks. 9lessons is the source on great, sort code

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  28. how could you use this to create a select box. i tried a few things but to no luck. by the way thanks for this great code. many uses for it!!

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  29. how to use this in a profile of a member?? because it only have a equal id? what can i do to make it work? by the way thanks.. this is a great tutorial..

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  30. sir please answer my question.. what will i do if the id is same? the id from the tr..

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  31. Howdy! I hope you are listening. I have a question.
    Q: If you use Checkboxes or "select" how do I set up the "span"?

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  32. Hi and congratulations for this nice example.

    I have this problem: when update the fields in the table MYSQL the spaces between words are eliminated.

    For example this phrase: Hello world !
    In update is stored as: Helloworld!

    Can you help me?
    Cheers

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  33. I appreciate your lession. It helps me a lot!

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  34. Helloo

    You are awesome!

    Thanks a lot

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  35. Geate script
    But when I tried to write Hebrew letters I got uncoded notes in my DB.
    How can it be fixed?

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  36. this is the best website i have ever gone through

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  37. Hi, Is there a way to run this script in aspx?

    Thanks.

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  38. I want add a "<" select ">", how Can I do?

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  39. Nice tuts! I'd like to know how to do this in individual "<" tr ">"

    thanks

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  40. Fantastic tutorial, many thanks!

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  41. Super duuuuper example.. gobbled it up.

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  42. Great tutorial

    But i have some trouble.. table_edit_ajax.php can only run 1 mysql query? because I'm trying to add in sending of email after table is edited..

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  43. awesome tutorial. I this and enhanced in my project. Thanks for providing such gr8 tutorials.

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  44. Is it possible to add rows as well as edit?

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  45. thans
    very helpful

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  46. Thanks so much, it's simpler and yet much better than many commercial scripts.

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  47. very good tutorial but im still starting using ajax with php and i tried making a CRUD table. i have a button that adds new rows(static for testing), my problem is the buttons dont run. they have the same class for javascript .click() but the buttons of the newly added rows doesnt work. please help..

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  48. Hello there is a way that instead a .php file could be an .html?

    Thanks a lot in advance for your answer.


    Alex

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  49. Thanks for you tutorial...Good description...easy to understand.. thanks

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  50. Its a goodie. Thanks for your effort

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  51. very good....and Excellent

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  52. wooooh.,,. nice post. thanks alot dude, its very useful for my project.. :)

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  53. hey dude how i do for insert paragraph on the field

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  55. Really nice one! Works like a charm!

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  56. Awesome tutorial, I'm gonna be a new follower

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  57. I cant seem to get it working with mssql database and codeigniter. Any thoughts?

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  58. Hello, I have one more question. How to make this for select elements?

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  59. Thank you for tutorial. It's great, but I have a little problem with it.
    When the db field contain quotes, for example:
    This is a "test"
    when you clck for live edit, the text in the quotes disappears, if it is at the beginning - the whole field is fon on click. I tried many wayes, but no success. My question is, where exactly in the code I have to escape special charachters like theese?
    10x in advance:)

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  60. A found a solution. Just in tableedit.php, variables in html tags have to be at single quotes, not double :)

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  61. Amazing Tutorial!

    How can edit the fields separately?

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  62. thanks you very much

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  63. Thank you, thank you! simply the best

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  64. Hi ,
    Thank's a lot for this Tut . Thats So Helpful for me .
    I have question . in file table_edit_ajax.php When I open it i see error :

    Notice: Undefined index: id in C:\xampp\htdocs\Live_table_edit\table_edit_ajax.php on line 3

    how i can remove it ?

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  65. Nice post Helps alot

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  66. Thanks alot, my problem is the value is not updated in the database.

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  67. Thank you very much

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  68. how to integrate this to codeigniter?
    please help!

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  69. Thanks a lot! This tutorial will help me in my school projects

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  70. good example, but for data more than 2000 its slowdown my page its because of /jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js" did you help me how to do it without slowdown the page

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  71. i have created a control pannel live edit and delete data form database and displaye the pannel.but i have click an save button but value have not change and not save in database.can you help me.i have using ajax javascript and php so please help me...

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  72. Hi

    Nice!
    It is possible to edit ONLY the right field, showing however the left field also?
    BR

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  73. Can you please guide me whether how to do it with individual td ? like if I click on "Firstname" only the firstname should be editable and not the lastname

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  74. How i can increase number of fields in the record i.e. number of columns

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  76. I love this, I love this, I love this! I love it mostly because it taught me a lot about jQuery, and I didn't have to use a plugin! What would be an amazing enhancement is if we could add the ability to submit the record by hitting enter, or clicking something. BTW, I gave up on checkboxes. Too much trouble. I use combos instead for boolean options, and it turns out to be better because it eliminates accidental box-checking.

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  77. i already have ajax-jquery on saving and retrieving part. this is exactly what im looking for! thank you for your time in creating this.

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  78. FABULOUS WORK YOU ARE GENIUS MAN

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  79. Hey its really working nice thanks a lot.

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  80. wow..its very useful for my project.. :) thanks

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  81. Very useful tutorial

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  82. Hey, really a great tutorial and it works quite fine for me.

    I have two issues by using autocomplete and date picker inside this.
    a.) autocomplete works fine, but selected content is not detected as a change
    b.) opening the date picker and select a date causes to change to "ready" mode

    Does someone solved this eventually already?

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  83. A life savor Article I used this to make comments editable :) Thank You

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  84. I had a question?
    how to edit a page(for ex:edit option in shine.com of user fields..he can edit his fields i.e year of passing and firstname,lastname,email etc--)how this can be done... I developed a code for this but when i click edit button it is display a pop-up box and contains two buttons(Save & Cancel). I don't want to display pop-up boxes.when i click Save & cancel buttons should come(what i mean exactly is shine.com)..can anyone help...Thanks..

    kishan.d

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  85. thank you so much :)

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  86. Proves to be a very useful site :-)

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  87. how to put select option on edit table. thanks

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  88. Thanksssssss great tutorial!!! <3

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  89. //Enter hit function
    $(".editbox").keypress(function (e) {
    var key = e.which;
    if(key == 13) // the enter key code
    {
    $(".editbox").hide();
    $(".text").show();
    }
    });

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  90. Gr8 tutorial! Thanks a lot.

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