Deleting lines with checkboxes

So, I’m doing a program for homework and it’s failing utterly. From what you see, you’ll be able to tell I’m not a very good programmer. The objective of this assignment is to:

Use your script from assignment 3 (the one that reads your “links” file and outputs a page with all the links), and save it with a new name, such as “admin.php”.

Alter this version of the script so that the output page is a form, and add a checkbox in front of each link. Add a submit button at the bottom that says “Delete Checked Items”. (I used different file names because I have multiple versions)

Here is the page the user sees (it will have errors on it as they are what are supposed to be deleted)>

[php]

Link Page
<?php
 ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
    ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

$file = file('../write/myfile.txt');

sort($file);

$main = array();
$n = 0;

foreach($file as $key =>$value)
{
    $main[$key]=explode("|",$value);
}
//columns 
$columns = array('Rating', 'URL', 'Description');
$counter=0;       
$category='';
       
       foreach($main as $key => $value){
           if($counter==0)
           {
                echo "<form name=\"form\" method\"post\" action\"delete2.php\"> <table border=1 align=center><tr>";
                
                foreach($columns as $col)
                {
                    echo "<th> $col </th>"; 
                }
                
                echo "</tr>"; 
                $counter++; 
           }
           
           if($category !== $main[$key][0])
           {
                $category = $main[$key][0]; 
                $newCat = true; 
                echo "<tr><td> <b>$category</b></td>"; 
           }
           else
           {
                $newCat = false;
           }
           
 
           
           for($i=1; $i< count($main[$key]); $i++)
           {
                $v = $main[$key][$i];
                $z = $main[$i];
                
                if($i==2)
                {   
                    $checkbox = array();
                    $n = 0;
                    
                    echo "<td><input type=\"checkbox\" name='$key' /> <a href=$v>$v</> </td>";
                    $n++;
                }
                else
                {
                    echo "<td> $v </td>";
                }
        
       }
       echo "</tr>"; 
     }          
        echo "<tr><td><input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit\" value=\"Delete Checked Items\"/></td>";
        echo "<td><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Cancel\" /></td>";
        echo "</table>";
        echo "</form>";
        
        echo "<br />";

?>

[/php]

From what I’m getting out of it, I don’t think it’s even sending to my other script. Also, it doesn’t even display right. I don’t know how to fix it so the table displays properly.

Here is the code for the script that is supposed to delete the rows that are checked.
[php]<?php

$lines = fopen("links2.php", "r");
$temp = fopen("../write/temp.txt", "a");
$content = file("../write/temp.txt"); 

foreach($_POST as $key => $val) 
{
    if(isset($_POST['$key']))
    {
        unset($content[$key]);
        //$key - 1;
        
    }
    
    //echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}
sort($content); 
fwrite($lines, implode("\n", $content)); 

fclose($lines);
unlink("links2.php");
rename("../write/temp.txt", "links2.php");

header("Location:http://cis2.elgin.edu/mjanicki/links2.php");       

?>[/php]

I think it’s filled with errors as neither page of code seems to work properly. Please, any help would be a hugeeeee lifesaver! Thank you so much.

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