How to populate radio boxes

Php? Javascript?

[sanblasena]

Hello,

I have a form with radio boxes - when I display the form I read the data from a database and put it in the appropriate input boxes - but I have not figured out a way to populate the radio boxes (or dropdowns) - for example if the database says the person is female I would like the radio box for female checked.
I am using MySQL/PHP

Thanks for you help.

Pat

[Birdman]

I do this:

1. Put the db value into a variable
   

   $db_gender = [i]whatever db syntax you use here[/i]

   ;
   
2. create empty var for HTML
   

   $radio_inputs = '';

   
   
3. Create array of radio values
   

   $radio = array('Male', 'Female');

   
   
4. Loop the array, comparing them with the db value
   

   foreach ($radio as $gender) {
   $checked = ($db_gender == $gender)? ' checked="checked"' : '';
   $radio_inputs .= '<input type="radio" name="gender" value="'.$gender.'"' . $checked . ' />';
   }

   
   
5. Output the HTML
   

   print $radio_inputs;