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Posted by Chuck Anderson on 10/10/06 00:37
Shelly wrote:
> I have used radio buttons often in the past, but now I am having problems.
> Please, someone, look at this simple code and tell me where I am going
> wrong. I cannot retrieve the posted value of gender when I click either
> button (male or female)
>
> I have tried (in desperation)
> 1 - removing the target statement on the form.
> 2 - adding [] to become name="gender[]".
> 3 - changing the values to 1 and 2.
>
> Nothing is working. It must be something extremely simple and obvious, but
> I just can't see it.
>
> This has worked for me many times in the past. Does anyone see ANYTHING?
> The complete code is below between the "******" lines, and can be cut and
> pasted.
>
> Shelly
>
> *******************************
> <?php
> if (isset($_POST['update'])) {
> $gender = $POST['gender'];
> echo "gender=" . $gender . "<br>";
> }
> ?>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <form action="" method="post" name="properties" TARGET="_SELF">
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td>Male<input type="radio" name="gender" value="M">
> Female<input type="radio" name="gender" value="F"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr align="center">
> <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" name="update" value="Update"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> *********************************
>
>
>
I hope you don't have a gun nearby or you might shoot yourself.
if (isset($_POST['update'])) {
$gender = $POST['gender'];
You're missing the '_' in $POST['gender'].
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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
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