HTTP_POST_VARS and radio buttons

Anon

I have created a multi-page form that is an assessment survey. Every element in the form is dynamically created from a mySQL database that is maintained by my client.

I cannot seem to find an answer to how I go about storing values from radio buttons.

The radio buttons:

<Input type='radio'name='5'>Female

<Input type='radio' name='5'>Male

The name attribute is dynamically created, so there is no way to know this value until run-time.

I parse the values using:

while(list($var, $val) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)){

echo "$var = " . ${$var} . "<BR>\n";

The result I get from this is:

5 = on

As you can see, this is not very useful.

Is there any way to retrieve the index of the selected radio button? With the index I can retrieve the value from the database.

Any help is much appreciated....

Anon

Make
<Input type='radio'name='5' value=Female>Female
<Input type='radio' name='5' value=Male>Male

Then you should get what you want.

Anon

Yes...that was it. This has been a big project, and I am a little brain-dead now.

In reality what I will do is set the value to the numeric index of the value in the database. For example
<Input type='radio'name='5' value='1'>Female
<Input type='radio' name='5' value='2'>Male
<Input type='radio'name='5'value='3'>Other

Thanks for the prompt response!

scott

Anon

Your welcome, hope all goes well.

Anon

Thanks from me too!