Incorrect or spam data can mess with our ability to organize and

report on important data.

Most people who have had to deal with the annoyance of spam in one form or

another, either emails, blog comments or physical junk mail.

I once received fortune cookie spam.

It read, support literacy, buy a box of fortune cookies.

Sometimes updating is not enough.

Sometimes we want to remove these entries completely.

Deleting can be extremely powerful.

It can also be extremely dangerous.

Let's explore the power and

pitfalls as we add the functionality to delete tasks and projects.

Lets start in functions.php and duplicate our get_task function.

We´ll rename this delete_task.

Then we update our SQL statement to use the keyword DELETE.

The only other thing we need to do is change our return to return true.

Everything else, including the bindValue is ready to go.

So let's switch over to our task list page.

It's a good idea to use $_POST for

anything that makes changes to the database.

So instead of just using a link, we'll add a form to each item in our foreach loop.

Method='post'.

And action='task_list.php'.

Let's close our form.

Next, we can add a hidden field for the task ID.

Type='hidden', and

value=$item['task_id'].

And our name='delete'.

Then we need a submit button.

On our submit button, I'm going to add a class='button--delete'.

This class is set up so that our button will look like a simple text link.

Now we're ready to accept that form data.

if (isset($_POST['delete']))

We need to filter input on delete for our task ID.

But the only thing we're doing with that data

is passing it to our delete_task function, so we can put that all in one line.

if (delete_task(,

(filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'delete',

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT))).

If the item is deleted, we're going to redirect.

And we're going to set a message.

Task+Deleted.

And then make sure we exit.

Else, we're going to redirect and

this time set a message that we are unable to delete.

Unable +to+Delete+Task'

And exit again.

Now let's accept that message and display it on the screen.

if (isset($_GET['msg'])),

Then we're going to set our error message.

We're going to filter our input.

(INPUT_GET, 'msg',

FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING).

Now let's copy the error message display from the task page.

Let's test out the functionality in the browser.

Let's delete our updated task.

Gone!

[LAUGH] That worked, but maybe it was a little too easy.

In the next video, we'll talk about data integrity

before adding the ability to delete projects as well.