Radio Button and Drop/Down Input

cmccomas

I am wanting to use radio buttons to determine if the article is posted on the site or not. I have two buttons, live and non-live. Live's value is set to 1, and non-live is set to 2. On my index page, where it calls for article, I have the $query set to only draw WHERE live=1. But I was curious about adding it to the add/edit page.

Do they both have the same name? They can't can they? I need a way to write them to the database.

Also, does anyone know where I can find form tags for drop-down window to select something? Say if I have three different types of articles and want the user to select one and save it to the database.

Thanks!

lanjoky

Not sure if this is what your asking but:

radio buttons (groups of them) normally contain the same name but different values ie:

then when you grab the field after it is submitted to get the value you use something like <? echo $GET['radio1'] ?>. If radio1 with the value of one was selected 1 will be the value held in <? echo $GET['radio1'] ?>. otherwise <? echo $_GET['radio1'] ?> will contain the value 3.

Using this method will not allow for both to be selected wich is what you are looking for I think

If I am totaly off base my apologies, and please clarify the question.

cmccomas

Nope, you are right on man. Thanks bunches!

cmccomas

Here is one problem I ran into. On my edit.php (to edit the news story) here is my $query:

$query = "UPDATE story SET headline = '$headline', byline = '$byline', author = '$author', story = '$story', timestamp = NOW() WHERE id = '$id'";
		$result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query. " . mysql_error());

Here is how I draw the data into the right fields:

<tr>
	<td valign="top"><b><font class="midText">Headline</font></b></td>
	<td><input size="50" maxlength="250" type="text" name="headline" value="<?php echo $row->headline; ?>"></td>
</tr>

How do I do this for the 'live' radio buttons? They really don't need to be checked if that is what they were selected previously, just more curious in how to save them? Should I run another query?

cmccomas

Got the drop-down menu on the add page working too, but not sure how to 'edit' it on my edit.php page.