HTML form

[semsuks]

I have a questionaire that I am working on for a project. It involves users filling in the information which will then use PHP to store it into the database. (My question is not with PHP, but it is rather an HTML question, so if anyone knows of a good forum location on the web for HTML or non-php help please let me know)

I have a set of radio buttons... with the last one being "other", then I have a text box next to that last other so that the user can fill in a value.

When the information gets stored its like it adds a whole new field in my spreadsheet. Is there a way for the value in the text box to set the value of the radio button.

I tried setting it up so that the text box's field name is the same as the radio button's, in hope that it would overwrite it since it comes after... it does not.

example: if they choose "other" radio button and fill in the text "this is my value" it will store: "other , this is my value" I need it to be "this is my value". This causes the information to be parsed into two different columns (adds an extra column), in a spreadsheet because a comma signifies a separator.

[mogster]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you have a spreadsheet or a db?

And if you're using radios, they have the same name, yes?

<input type="radio" name="select_one" value="fixed_value1">
<input type="radio" name="select_one" value="fixed_value2">

<input type="radio" name="select_one" value="fixed_value3">
<input type="text" name="select_one_sub" value="">

Then you can use an if-else check in the receiving script:
if($select_one == "fixed_value3") {
$select_one = $select_one_sub;
} else {
$select_one = $select_one;
}

Perhaps?

knutm 😉