Radio Button Form Mail

mgzee

I'm making a form mail using the syntax below:

// --- Array of Form Elements ---
$form_mail[] = array( "name" => "Entry", "text" => "Entry", "type" => "text" ) ;

I've been looking for how to handle radio buttons from this side. From looking around online it seems I should use a foreach statement but don't know how it should fit in the syntax above. Am I on the right track?

stewartship

sorry mgzee can you clarify for me what you are trying to do? do you have radio buttons on a from and want to pass their values to the array?

Houdini

You would not need a for each for a radio button value because they all share the same name but different values, and only one button may be selected. Here is a quick example of their use in a form.

<form action = "process.php" method='post'>
Select your favorite meat.<br />
Beef<input type="radio" name = "choice" value="Beef" checked /><br />
Ham<input type="radio" name = "choice" value="Ham"  /><br />
Fish<input type="radio" name = "choice" value="Fish" /><br />
Pork<input type="radio" name = "choice" value="Pork" /><br />
</form>

With a radio button you may only make one choice and in the above example you will note that Beef is preselected or checked giving a default value if the user were to skip making a selection at all, but if they checked something else then Beef would be deselected and the new choice would be set. So to process you simple take the value of $_POST['choice'] which would equal Beef if the user either did not make another choice or just left the preselected alone. So I do not see the need for assigning an array at all.

mgzee

Sorry I am not more explicit... What I have is two files, survey.php and survey.lib.php. i have built survey.php with radio buttons, and now i am not sure how to use survey.lib.php to print the radio buttons to an email. my text fields print with the code

$form_mail[] = array( "name" => "Name", "text" => "Name", "type" => "text", "required" => "Required" ) ;

and I haven't managed to find any string of code by looking around online for reading the radio dial input. I think what I am missing is the portion of the string that is bolded below:

$form_mail[] = array( "name" => "activity", "text" => "", "type" => "radio", "required" => "Required" ) ;

Does that clarify?

Am I on the right track?

I appreciate your help.