Make radiobutton value permanent until changed

aoz

Ok got a similar question but regarding a pulldown menu, which I mmm leatherback got to work. See http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10238135

Now I want and have tried but not got it to work. I want radiobuttons where u can choose North, West, South, Middle, East, once the visitor have chosen one of them he will get info about one randomly chosen user then he clicks a another set of radiobuttona to get the next randomly user.

The problem is that the values from the buttons choosing south north and so on is nulled when the user click on the other radiobuttons to get to the next users info.

Hope u get my point.

This is what I have came up with:

<?
if (isset($_post['kateg']) and $POST['kateg'] != "")
{
$kategecho = "<input type=\"hidden\" name =\"kateg\" value=\"$kateg\">";
}
?>
<form action="index.php" name="kateg" method="post"> 
<select name="kateg" onclick="this.form.submit()"> 
              <input type="radio" value="S"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "S" ? "SELECTED" : ""); ?> name=kateg onclick="this.form.submit()">South<br>
			<input type="radio" value="N"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "N" ? "SELECTED" : ""); ?> name=kateg onclick="this.form.submit()">South<br>
			<input type="radio" value="M"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "M" ? "SELECTED" : ""); ?> name=kateg onclick="this.form.submit()">Middle<br>
			<input type="radio" value="E"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "E" ? "SELECTED" : ""); ?> name=kateg onclick="this.form.submit()">East<br>
			<input type="radio" value="W"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "W" ? "SELECTED" : ""); ?> name=kateg onclick="this.form.submit()">West           <? echo $kateg; ?>
</form>

Don't know if this is the way to do it but thats how the pulldownmenu was down. Dont know if it matter but the pulldown menu is together with a set of radiobuttons in one single FORM tag.

Please help if u can, I feel that I'm getting stuck here otherwise

aoz

anyone ??😕

cgraz

I'm not sure I understand, but "selected" is not a attribute for radio buttons. You want to change that to "checked" if you want it to check the right one.

Cgraz

aoz

yeah you got that right, i missed that.

Altoughtthe problem is still there, becasue when the visitor clock say the radiobutton to view "North"-values but then he clicks the other radiobutton-set to get the next randomly chosen user the NORTH value is not there anymore. How do I fix this?

aoz

this problem is beyond my knowledge.. plz help me out

The problem is this:
I have one pulldown menu and one radiobutton-set in one form tag. The pulldownmenu is used so the visitor can make a selection on what info he wants to view. The radiobutton is to agree or not to agree with that users opinion and it is this radiobutton that send the visitor to the next randomly choosen page. I have managed to get the pulldownmenu-value to be permanent until the visitor changed it.

But now I want one radiobutton-set more!! where the visitor can choose geographical place (North West South Middle East). The value in this set of button shall also be permanent until the visitor changes it. How do I make this??

cgraz

Are you sure it's not there anymore? Looking at your code, you have 5 radio buttons, but the word north never appears on the browser, but the word south appears twice. Maybe south is appearing twice, but one of those has the value of N for north, so you think it's not appearing.

I'm having trouble following your ocde or what this is even supposed to do. They click one of the radio buttons, then you submit the form. Does the form submit to the same page, or a seperatage page? What does it do when submitted? Are these radios still there?

Also, i see your form tag surrounding you radio buttons, but I don't see the dropdown menu that you're talking about. You said they're both within the same form tag?

Ok wait a sec (sorry, I'm typing as I look at your code). I just saw your drop down (the select) Why do you have radio buttons within your select? YOu need to fill your select with values, end it, then the radios are seperate from that. For example:

<form method="post" action=". . .">

<select name="bla">
   <option value="1">One</option>
   <option value="2">Two</option>
   <option value="2">Three</option>
</select><br><br>

<input type="radio" name="kateg" value="N">North<br>
<input type="radio" name="kateg" value="S">South<br>
<input type="radio" name="kateg" value="E">East<br><input type="radio" name="kateg" value="W">West<br>
</form>

See how they are seperate? For some reason, you have radios within a select tag.

And for the javascript portion, onClick isn't valid with a select. You'd want to use onChange.

Cgraz

aoz

the reason I put the pulldown and the radiobutton as one form is that then I can get it to work (so the pulldownmenu gets a permanent value)

Now I have tested inserting that sexond set of radiobutton in this form ( = 2 radio and one pulldown in the same form, pulldown and one radio-set shall be permanent values) and I think i got it to work.

Yes one of the radio button-set updates the same page only the info about the users thta randomly shows on the page.

The other radioset is to choose North South ..... The pull down is to choose YES or NO value. These 2 shall be permanent.

leatherback

Hi,

I think I may have found one of the problems.

Go back to the original idea of having 2 forms.

Form one: your drop-down menu.
Form two: The radio buttons.

Then: In form one, you plave a hidden variable for the radio (kateg) and in form two, you place a hidden variable for the dropdown (kon).


if (isset($kon) and $kon != "")
  {
  $konecho = "<input type=\"hidden\" name =\"kon\" value=\"$kon\">";
  }


if (isset($kateg) and $kateg != "")
{
$kategecho = "<input type=\"hidden\" name =\"kateg\" value=\"$kateg\">";

}

You keep the dropdown as it is, and add:

<? echo $kategecho; ?>

The radio's should work too:

              <input type="radio" value="S"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "S" ? "checked" : ""); ?> name=kateg onchange="this.form.submit()">South<br>
            <input type="radio" value="N"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "N" ? "checked" : ""); ?> name=kateg onchange="this.form.submit()">South<br>
            <input type="radio" value="M"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "M" ? "checked" : ""); ?> name=kateg onchange="this.form.submit()">Middle<br>
            <input type="radio" value="E"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "E" ? "checked" : ""); ?> name=kateg onchange="this.form.submit()">East<br>
            <input type="radio" value="W"<?php echo ($_POST["kateg"] == "W" ? "checked" : ""); ?> name=kateg onchange="this.form.submit()">West           

<? echo $konecho; ?>

aoz

alright, leatherback... youre back.

I will try your idea within a minute.

I tried to put all in one frm-tag, it seemed to worked but when I chose a value in the pulldown and in the permanent radiobuttons and would then clock the radiobutton to come to the next user then it kepp on saying 404 error.... strange

leatherback

OK,

Good luck. I am off to bed. Will read tomorrow evening what happened.