Help with Radio Button "checked" attribute...

[dvarsam]

Hello!

I have the following problem:

I have a variable named "$address_type" which could be either "home", "work" or "other".
The data is exported from the MySQL database & assigned to the variable.

I want this code to work:

if ($address_type = "home")
{

   $display_block .= "
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"home\" checked> home
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"work\"> work
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"other\"> other";
  }
else if ($address_type = "work")
{
   $display_block .= "
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"home\"> home
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"work\" checked> work
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"other\"> other";
  }

else
{
   $display_block .= "
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"home\"> home
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"work\"> work
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"other\" checked> other";
  }

The above is supposed to compare the "$address_type" variable's contents & accordingly assing the "checked" value on one of the above Radio Buttons...
But even though the variable is assigned diff values from the database, the "checked" option is not assigned properly at all!!!
What is wrong?

Thanks.

[leatherback]

Hi,

you are assigning a value if you use =, you should use == in a test.

That being said, let's clean up your code:

$options = array(
'home'=> "",
'work'=>"",
'other'=>"");

$options[$address_type] = ' selected ';


$display_block .= "
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"home\" ".$options['home']."> home
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"work\"".$options['work']."> work
    <input type=\"radio\" name=\"tel_type\" value=\"other\" ".$options['other']."> other";

[dvarsam]

When I use your suggested code, none of the radio buttons gets selected...
Your code does not seem to work.
Basically the variable comes in from the database & when the value is read, the appropriate radio button should get pre-selected...
Is there some correction you could suggest?

Thanks.

[leatherback]

Check whether $adress_type is actually set, I'd say...

And do a print_r($options); after the line $options[$address_type] = ' selected '; to see which option gets set.

J.