Be able to change the colour of seperate divs by clicking on buttons

Question

I am creating a wedding checklist website. For my checklist I want to enable the user to change the colour of the todo item to red, amber and green, red for not done, amber for

Answer 1

in db

1. add a column status with a value of 1 or 2 numbers ( it'll be the id of a status)
2. Create a table status with a status_id, status_title ,status_color, color_id, enabled

in your code :

1. in your div , get the color of the task by getting the stored id

   $colorOfTheTask = "SELECT color_id FROM status,task WHERE task.status = status.id ";

2. Use this on each of your td (i suppose you're using tables)

Like that you'll be able to manage your colours easier. You can still use a if statement like this :