When a form is a questionaire......?

[quantuman]

I am creating a trivia website where only one radio button can be correct. I know how to write radio buttons, but how can you make it that when the form is submitted, the write answers come back.

Basically: how do you write a radio button so that one button is correct?

 

[Daft]

You must give the same name at all the radio button :

<input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;myradio&quot; value=&quot;button 1&quot;><br>
<input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;myradio&quot; value=&quot;button 2&quot;><br>
<input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;myradio&quot; value=&quot;button 3&quot;>

 

[rbobbitt]

I'm not totally sure what you're asking. Are you saying that you want the information submitted in the form to include the correct answers as well as the user's answers?

If so, the better way to handle this is have the correct answers stored somewhere on the server side (i.e. in a database or in the CGI script that processes the form data itself). If you embed the answers in the HTML somewhere, it's quite easy for the user to cheat.

If, for whatever reason, you're stuck on an HTML solution, you can code a hidden field that corresponds to the correct answer to each question on the form:

<form action=&quot;myscript.cgi&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<!-- Questions -->
<pre>
1. What is 1 + 1?

3 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q1&quot; value=&quot;3&quot;>
2 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q1&quot; value=&quot;2&quot;>
-33.5 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q1&quot; value=&quot;33.5&quot;>

2. What is 1 - 1?

97 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q2&quot; value=&quot;97&quot;>
4 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q2&quot; value=&quot;4&quot;>
0 <input type=&quot;radio&quot; name=&quot;q2&quot; value=&quot;0&quot;>

<!-- Insert more questions here -->
</pre>
<!-- Answers -->
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;q1Answer&quot; value=&quot;2&quot;>
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;q2Answer&quot; value=&quot;0&quot;>
</form>

HTH,

Russ
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