Multiple Radio Button Groups - Please Help! :)

[Abersparky]

I'm having a problem with multiple radio button groups within a while
loop. I have the page made so it pulls from a database the row values
- one of which is a Y or N value. I have a radio button group for the
Y and N value for each row of the database that gets pulled but only
the last row will populate the value retrieved from the db. I know
that I have to create a unique name for the radio buttons for each row
- but I don't know how to increment the value automatically for each
row... help??

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: Multiple Radio Button Groups - Please Help! :)

Abersparky wrote:

I'm having a problem with multiple radio button groups within a while
loop. I have the page made so it pulls from a database the row values
- one of which is a Y or N value. I have a radio button group for the
Y and N value for each row of the database that gets pulled but only
the last row will populate the value retrieved from the db. I know
that I have to create a unique name for the radio buttons for each row
- but I don't know how to increment the value automatically for each
row... help??
>

The best way to get help with your code is to post it.

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[Abersparky]

Re: Multiple Radio Button Groups - Please Help! :)

How do I get the radio name to automatically increment?? (and by the
way I know I totally butchered the name value that's there lol)

if ($w_row['vis']=='Y') {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" checked
value="Y">';
} else {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" value="Y">';
}

if ($w_row['vis']=='N') {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" checked
value="N">';
} else {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" value="N">';
}

[Tyno Gendo]

Re: Multiple Radio Button Groups - Please Help! :)

Abersparky wrote:

How do I get the radio name to automatically increment?? (and by the
way I know I totally butchered the name value that's there lol)
>
if ($w_row['vis']=='Y') {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" checked
value="Y">';
} else {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" value="Y">';
}
>
if ($w_row['vis']=='N') {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" checked
value="N">';
} else {
print '<input name="{$w_row["comment_id "]}" type="radio" value="N">';
}
>

You are using single quotes on the print, that will mean that the names
will literally be "{$w_row... }" I think by just glancing at it, but
assuming your comment_id is an INT AUTO_NUMBER PRIMARY KEY then your
code should be fine if you hadn't used single quotes. You don't need to
write your whole INPUT twice, just set a value for 'checked' to be
inserted into the input code, I'd do something like:

$w_row['vis'] == 'Y' ? $checked='check ed="checked"' : $checked="";
echo '<input name="comment' . $w_row["comment_id "] . '" type="radio"
' . $checked . ' />';

Or if you don't like the 3step if (tertiary or whatever..) ...

$checked = '';
if ( $w_row['vis'] == 'Y' ) {
$checked='check ed="checked"';
}
echo '<input name="comment' . $w_row["comment_id "] . '" type="radio"
' . $checked . ' />';


hope that helps. you should end up with radio's called comment1,
comment2, comment3 etc. depending on your comment_id field's primary key
values.