how to use a link to open a modal and set php get variable

Question

i have a table that lists users(fetched from db), each row has an Edit
button which holds the id of the user when clicked it sends the id to the page and brings data back from db based on the id and fills out a form with the data to be edited

How do i send it to a modal form when edit is clicked and bring back data from db.

https://code.sololearn.com/w1Uv1C84RQf6/?ref=app

Answer 1

You need to use AJAX for that purpose. See: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_ajax_intro.asp

Basically, what you need to do is to make asynchronous request to your server, which will return (preferably, in JSON format) the data from database, which you could flll in the JavaScript generated form using "value" attribute of input tag.
Hope that makes it clear.