Is there a common method for implementing a “batch table” in PHP?

[haleyw]

Let's say I'm writing some forum software. Let's additionally say that that forum software has a personal messaging component. I'd like the user to be able to check a few messages out of that list, and then click a delete button somewhere else to delete all of those messages.Another similar application is GMail, or pretty much every other kind of webmail application.Is there a common pattern for implementing this? I can just stick a database row ID in each table row, but that seems like a kludge....