Deleing Multiple Rows Using Checkboxes, PHP and MySQL

      //Build Table Query
      $query="SELECT * FROM documents";
      $result= mysqli_query($con, $query) or die("Invalid query");

      $count = mysqli_affected_rows($con); 
   ?>
   <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
         <td>
            <form name="form1" method="post" action="deletefilesback.php">
               <table width="800" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
                  <tr>
                     <td colspan="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center"><strong>Delete Multiple         Files</strong></td>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">#</td>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Id</strong></td>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Title</strong></td>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Description</strong></td>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>File Location</strong></td>
                  </tr>
                  <?php
                     while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
                  ?>
                  <tr>
                     <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox"  id="checkbox[]" value="<?php echo $rows['id']; ?>"></td>
                     <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo $row['id']; ?></td>
                     <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo $row['title']; ?></td>
                     <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo $row['description']; ?></td>
                     <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo $row['doc_link']; ?></td>
                  </tr>
                  <?php
                     }
                  ?>
                  <tr>
                     <td colspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="delete" type="submit"   id="delete" value="Delete Files"></td>
                  </tr>
               </table>
            </form>
         </td>
      </tr>
</table>

   $delete = $_POST['checkbox'];

   //Then do what you want with the selected items://
   foreach ($delete as $id) {

      $query="DELETE FROM documents WHERE id = '".$id."'";
      $result= mysqli_query($con, $query) or die("Invalid query");

   }

   //Show that the items have been successfully removed.//
   if (mysqli_affected_rows($con) > 0) {
      echo '<p>The selected items have been successfully deleted.</p>';
   } else {
      echo '<p>An error has occurred while processing your request</p>';
   }

?> 
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