Form to handle Friend Requests

PHP
1

I am trying to come up with a way to handle Friend-Requests.

The idea I currently have would look like this…


PROCESS FRIEND-REQUESTS...

User1
<user1's photo>		_ Accept  _ Decline

User2
<user2's photo>		_ Accept  _ Decline

User3
<user3's photo>		_ Accept  _ Decline

User4
<user4's photo>		_ Accept  _ Decline

User5
<user5's photo>		_ Accept  _ Decline


	----------------------	------------
	|  PROCESS REQUESTS  |	|  CANCEL  |
	----------------------	------------

Questions:

1.) Is there a better or easier way to accomplish the same thing?

2.) Is it possible to have a series of Accept/Decline Radio Button “pairs” on several rows in a Form?

3.) Is it possible to make it so when the user clicks “Process Requests” that I could run an UPDATE query on each record in my “Friend” table (i.e. one Friend per record)

Thanks,

Debbie

2

This is just off the top of my head, but:

Give each of the inputs an name. This is would be something like name=“request[$id]” where $id would be the database unique id for that request.

Then you could process this in php by getting all of the ids (str_replace the “request-”) and use the “IN” parameter of mysql.

3

1: Looks good to me.
2: Yes.
3: Yes, but try wrapping your head around this: You should be able do all of the updating in 2 query executions, regardless of how many friends were accepted/declined.