Re: Dynamically check radio buttons

OK, changed the subject to what I think it should be about. Anybody? "Shew" <babydragon4@excite.com> wrote in message news:20020731141657.80369.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi - I'm a TOTAL php NEWBIE - my 1st bit of code!!!. > > Basically the input form page has 17 sets of radio buttons, each > representing one game with 2 options - team 1 and team 2. What I want to do > is a better way of checking each radio button value instead of using an if > statement for each. This code doesn't really work - it finds that vars > ALWAYS exist. > > IE: > > <INPUT NAME=Game1 VALUE=1>Chicago > <INPUT NAME=Game1 VALUE=2>whatever > > <INPUT NAME=Game2 VALUE=3>Minny > <INPUT NAME=Game2 VALUE=1>Nobody > > Code above is processed by the following code: > > for ($GameIdx = 1; $GameIdx <= 17; $GameIdx++) { > /* instead "hardcoding each radio button name - just do it programmatically > by concatenating / creating the name */ > $frmGame = "Game" + $GameIdx; > if ($frmGame) { > /* U want to check if the length is 5 or 6 bytes because it could be > "game1" or "game14" */ > $Length = strlen($frmGame); > if ($Length == 5) { > $GetNumber = 1; > } > else { > $GetNumber = 2; > } > > $GameID = intval(substr($frmGame, $Length - $GetNumber, $GetNumber)); > print "Game ---> $GameIdx - $frmGame - $GetNumber - $GameID <BR>"; > if ($GameID == $GameIdx) { > print "Yeah Match - $GameID = $GameIdx <BR>"; > /* OK, here is where U want to do the actual insert */ > } > } /* $frmGame endif */ > } > > ?> > > > Thanks > > >