Newbie needs help - radio buttons

[bubblegum]

Hi I have made a simple online test using dreamweaver but I can't get the radio buttons to work correctly - I have included an attachment to help explain a little more.

I have a table with one row (one row per question) and five colums but then I use the 'repeat region' so on runtime I have a table with 5 rows for each of the five questions in the sql database.

questionText - Answer1 - Answer2 - Answer3 - Answer4
questionText - Answer1 - Answer2 - Answer3 - Answer4
questionText - Answer1 - Answer2 - Answer3 - Answer4
questionText - Answer1 - Answer2 - Answer3 - Answer4
questionText - Answer1 - Answer2 - Answer3 - Answer4

Each of the columns containing the Answer 1 - 4 also contain a radio button. The radio buttons are all called Q1 but have the values 1 - 4

I start with the radio buttons set in the properties the name and values:

name Q1 - value 1
name Q1 - value 2
name Q1 - value 3
name Q1 - value 4

They work fine as a single line but as soon as they are repeated so I have four radio buttons for each of the five lines so I can only choose One radio button out of the whole 20 instead of one per row. I end up with:

5 x name Q1 - value 1
5 x name Q1 - value 2
5 x name Q1 - value 3
5 x name Q1 - value 4

This is the code for the buttons:

<tr>
<td bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><input name="A1" type="radio" value="1" >
<?php echo $row_Recordset2['Answer1']; ?></td>
<td bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><input name="A1" type="radio" value="2" >
<?php echo $row_Recordset2['Answer2']; ?></td>
<td bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><input name="A1" type="radio" value="3" >
<?php echo $row_Recordset2['Answer3']; ?></td>
<td bordercolor="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><input name="A1" type="radio" value="4" >
<?php echo $row_Recordset2['Answer4']; ?></td>
</tr>

So basically I need to have 20 radio buttons (four per line) and the user needs to be able to choose just one answer per line a total of 5 out of 20 choices

Any ideas? 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

So all of the radio buttons have the same name? Well that's obviously your problem there.

What surrounds the code for the buttons that you posted? A while() loop that's looping through a database?

If so, try creating a counter variable, $i for example, with a value of 1 outside the while() loop. Then, For echo group of radio names, you would say:

<input name="A<?PHP echo $i; ?>" type="...

And at the end of your while() loop, you'd increment $i by 1 ($i++;).

[bubblegum]

You've just totally lost me here 😃
I haven't got a loop just that bit of code you see - I'm totally new and have no idea what this does:

<input name="A<?PHP echo $i; ?>" type="...

Can you explain it to me again please 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

Is this some template system? What code takes the template file and parses it?

[bubblegum]

Hi - This is my first attempt at learning myself php/dreamweaver. I have made two tables in sql

QUESTIONS - Topic, questionid, questiontext
ANSWERS - questonid, answer1, answer2, answer3, answer4, correctanswer

I've then made in dreamweaver a simple page that users two recordsets - one for the question table and one for the answers table

I then made two tables and put in the fist the recordset = QuestionId
In the second I put in the recordset = answer1, answer2, answer3, answer 4

In the sql tables there are 20 questions and 80 possible answers but I have set it so you can only view the questions in a certain topic - always 5 questions per topic

So now I have 2 tables each with one row:
questiontext ------ answer1, answer2, answer3, answer4

but then i've put a repeat region around this table so on runtime I can view all five questions (one per row) and 4 options for each question ?(four per row)

Then in each colum where the four possible answers are there are also a radio button - so the user can pick one answer for each row - if I take out the repeat region thing it works but as soon as i put that in I can only choose one radio button out of all 20 instead of one per row

The attachment i added might make a little more sence - I hope this helps explain my problem 🙂