Displaying Radio Button Values

[kloner]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding how to display the checked value of a radio button to the next page (and CFMAIL). The following code is generated and displays a series of questions pulled form a DB.

<tr valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<td><font class=&quot;body&quot;>Questions</font></td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<font class=&quot;smallcopy&quot;>Not<br>
Relevant </font>
</center>
</td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<font class=&quot;smallcopy&quot;>Strongly<br>
Disagree </font>
</center>
</td>
<td nowrap></td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<font class=&quot;smallcopy&quot;>Strongly<br>
Agree </font>
</center>
</td>
</tr>

<cfloop Query=&quot;questions&quot;>
<cfoutput>
<tr valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<td>
<div align=&quot;right&quot;><font class=&quot;body&quot;>#question_text#</font></div>
</td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<font class=&quot;body&quot;>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;N&quot;>
</font>
</center>
</td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;1&quot;>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;2&quot;>
</center>
</td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;3&quot; checked>
</center>
</td>
<td nowrap>
<center>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;4&quot;>
<cfinput type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;#question_id#&quot; value=&quot;5&quot;>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

So for example the page would look like this : (each question's radio buttons have a value(1 to 5) and a name(#question_id#)

Question 1 goes here Radio1 Radio2 Radio3 Radio4 Radio5
Question 2 goes here Radio1 Radio2 Radio3 Radio4 Radio5
Question 3 goes here Radio1 Radio2 Radio3 Radio4 Radio5
Question 4 goes here Radio1 Radio2 Radio3 Radio4 Radio5

When i hit 'submit' validation is run (for other stuff), and I want to get the results of each question, like this:

Question 1 : The rating given was (5)
Question 2 : The rating given was (3)
Question 3 : The rating given was (1)
Question 4 : The rating given was (2)

How do I get the results of the checked radio buttons? Do I have to use a List? If someone has similar examples I would really appreciate them showing me how they would do such a task.

Regards, [sig]<p>Matthew Wall<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]

 

[gasparrelli]

Don't know if there are a bunch of other fields on the form, but if not you can loop through the form fields referencing the form as an structure. I've done something similar in a number of places. Here's a sample:

<cfloop collection=&quot;#form#&quot; item=&quot;Loop_item&quot;>
<cfoutput>
<cfif #loop_item# NEQ &quot;fieldnames&quot; and #loop_item# NEQ &quot;submit&quot;>
<br> the question is: #LOOP_item#<br> and the answer is: #form[loop_item]#<br>
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>

I use cfif to ignore fields I don't want. You can get really tricky on forms which have a bunch of other fields you don't want if you name all the fields you want to reference in the loop with some common prefix, like L_ (so the name would be L_name) Then have your cfif look only for items in the collection containing L_ or whatever you chosen pattern is.

Hope that helps - this advice is coming from someone who has been using CF under a month, so there are probably better ways... [sig][/sig]