[RESOLVED] Radio Buttons persistance and writing to wrong variable

W9FZ

Hello there:

I have a Yes/No radio button asking if a conference registrant needs a dealer table and then offers a place (tinyint) to say how many.

<tr><td align="right" colspan="3">Will you need tables in the Dealer Area? (limit 4)&nbsp;</td><td>
    <label><input name="dealertable" type="radio" value="Y" <?php (isset($dealertable) && $dealertable=='Y')? 'checked="checked"':'';?>/>Yes</label>&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <label><input name="dealertable" type="radio" value="N" <?php (isset($dealertable) && $dealertable=='N')? 'checked="checked"':'';?>/>No</label>
	&nbsp;&nbsp;How Many?&nbsp;<input type="text" name="dealertablenum" size="2" maxlength="3" value="<?php echo(isset($_POST['dealertablenum'])?$_POST['dealertablenum']:0); ?>" /></td></tr>

I'm not getting the persistance of the radio button that I'd like but more troubling is that the number of tables keeps inserting into the db in the dealertable column (which should be Y/N).

I am working with inherited code and there was quite a bit of short tags. This is one area I'm trying to pull it out so that I can understand what's going wrong in this case. This may be the nature of my problem.

Yes, I see that I use POST variable for part and not for the other. I'm going to go experiment with all one way and all the other.

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

W9FZ

Ok, I had two issues each with a different problem and solution.

First, it appears that the format of my inline portion of php code had some errors--either in single-quotes or in trying to fill the true AND false cases.

I'm currently using (and it works):

<label><input name="dealertable" type="radio" value="Y" <?php if (isset($_POST['dealertable']) && ($_POST['dealertable'] == 'Y')) echo ' checked="checked"'; ?>/>Yes</label>&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <label><input name="dealertable" type="radio" value="N" <?php if (isset($_POST['dealertable']) && ($_POST['dealertable'] == 'N')) echo ' checked="checked"'; ?>/>No</label>

Secondly, the reason the value was not being written to the database properly was that I had a mismatch on item and value. Careful review caught it and fixed it :-) .

So, now I get radio button persistance. Yeah!

Bruce