Radio Buttons and Submit Questions [SOLVED]

[RogueTomboy]

Hello everyone!

In the registration page of the game I am working on I have five races you can pick from and from those races - pick either male or female gender.

What I want the Registration Page to do

1. let you fill out username/password/etc (which is up and running)
2. use a raido button to pick your race/gender (which I also have but they aren't active aka they don't send info to the database)
3. when the submit button is hit on the register page it will send all data to the database (players info and race/gender choice)

I have the parts running on my local host but I don't know how to get it communicating with the database.

[SpiritWebb]

So, you do have the username/password registration working and going to the database right? You just need to know how to get the radio button working?

[RogueTomboy]

Yeah, I can register with username/email/password etc. My 'pick a race' was a dropdown menu but I want to change it to radio buttons to pick the race. I assume that my male/female choices will both equal the race they chose since there is no difference other than what avatar they will have.

[Torniquet]

assuming i understand what your after. a group of radio buttons is defined by giving them all the same 'name' attribute.

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<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="0" checked="checked" /> - Male
<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="1" /> - Female

to retrieve the information from the posted form, you access it just like any other variable, $_POST['gender']


registration form (radio buttons) :-

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<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="0" checked="checked" /> - Male
<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="1" /> - Female

<input type ="radio" name="race" value="0" checked="checked" /> - Human
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="1" /> - Android
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="2" /> - Alien
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="3" /> - Slug
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="4" /> - Toadstool

Each selection has its own reference ID (human = 0 etc)

then on the form processing you gather information like so

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$gender = $_POST['gender'];
$race = $_POST['race'];
 

if i have missed the point to this question, apologies. If not hope it helps

[Xaleph]

If you have PHP active, you can print down your POST information. If you have a dropdown menu ( which is not a radio group ), the dropdown menu will be in there the same as the NAME attribute of the menu. If you choose with radio buttons, you have to group them. If you have 3 options, each button`s NAME attribute will be the same.

<input type='"radio" name="race" value="human"/>
<input type='"radio" name="race" value="orc"/>
<input type='"radio" name="race" value="fairy"/>

Now, in the PHP you can access the radio value like this: $_POST['race'];

The value this way will be either human, orc or fairy. You can also choose a default value using this: checked="checked".

So, <input type='"radio" name="race" value="human" checked="checked"/> will be the default value.

[RogueTomboy]

Okay, thanks guys! I'm going to go and try out what I've learned and let you know!

Okay I am very much a noob or I've just been up too long. I understand what you guys are saying but integrating it into what I already have written is...confusing me I think.

This is what I already have written:

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<?php
include 'connect.php';
?>

 <link href="register.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 <div id='regstuff'>
<form method ="post" action="reguser.php">
Type Username Here: <input type="text" name="player" size="21"><br>
Type Password Here: <input type="text" name="password" size "15"><br>
ReType Password Again: <input type="text" name="pass2" size "15"><br>
Type Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size "60"><br>

<input type="submit" value="submit">

</form>
</div>

<div id='regrace'>

<?php
      print "<center><h3><font color='ffffff'>Pick Your Character</h3></center></font>";
      print "<center>";
      print "<table border='0' bordercolor='black' bgcolor='#000000'>";
      print "<tr><td><img src='images/hymale.png'></td><td><img src='images/hyfem.png'></td><td><img src='images/konmale.png'></td><td><img src='images/konfem.png'></td></tr>";
      print "<tr><td><center><input type='radio' name='race' value='1'><font color='ffffff'>Hybrid Male</center></td><td></font><center><input type='radio' name='race' value='1'><font color='ffffff'>Hybrid Female</center></font></td>
      <td><center><input type='radio' name='race' value='4'/><font color='ffffff'>Konori Male</center></font></td><td><center><input type='radio' name='race' value='4'/><font color='ffffff'>Konori Female</center></font></td></tr>";
      print "</table>";
      print "</td></tr></table>";
      print "</center>";
      
      print "<center>";
      print "<table border='0' bordercolor='black' bgcolor='#000000'>";
      print "<tr><td><font color='ffffff'><center>Stats<br>Attack<br>Defense<br>Hit Points<br>Spell Points<br>Energy</td><td><font color='ffffff'><center><br>7<br>6<br>23<br>7<br>100</center></font></td>
      <td><font color='ffffff'><center>Stats<br>Attack<br>Defense<br>Hit Points<br>Spell Points<br>Energy</td><td><font color='ffffff'><center><br>10<br>8<br>27<br>0<br>100</center></font></td></tr>";
      print "</table>";
      print "</td></tr></table>";    
      print "</center>";
      
      print "<center>";
      print "<table border='0' bordercolor='black' bgcolor='#000000'>";
      print "<tr><td colospan='2'><font color='ffffff'>Hybrids are the offspring of a Human and Kamere.</font></td><td colospan='2'><font color='ffffff'>Konori are one of the original races to inhabit Neo.</font></td></tr>";
      print "</table>";
      print "</td></tr></table>";    
      print "</center>";
    
    
?>
</div>

This is the altered code provided by you guys:

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<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="0" checked="checked" /> Male
<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="1" /> Female

<input type ="radio" name="race" value="0" checked="checked" /> Human
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="1" /> Hybrid
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="2" /> Kamere
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="3" /> Rilon
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="4" /> Konori

Yes...so lost :S

[Torniquet]

Ok i think i see what your trying to achive. you are combining the race and gender into one selection.

That makes things abit more awkward.

Despite whether your selecting race and gender together or indevidually. You still need to give each option an indevidual reference.

currently you have both hybrids as value 1 and Konori as value 4.

make them all indevidual. male hybrid value 1, female 2, Konori male 3 etc etc.

when it comes to putting them into your database, you need to decide whether you are keeping gender and race seperate entities. If so, you need to run an if statement to declare the indevidual race and gender. ie...

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if($_POST['race'] == 1)
{
 $race = 1;
 $gender = 1;
}
else if ($_POST['race'] == 2)
{
 $race = 1;
 $gender = 2;
}
 

and so on. and there you are setting each race and gender different values.

[RogueTomboy]

I read that and it just confused me even more lol I'm sorry I am still rather intensely new when it comes to coding.

I have no idea if I'd need to make a Human Male entry in the database and then a Human Female in the database or if I just add Male/Female to Human like you would for Hp or Sp.

So...yeah lol.

/overwhelmed a little

[hallsofvallhalla]

yes make a field in your DB for race and one for class.

Include all your registration into one forums

so

<form>
race radios
class radios
character name
password
email
</form

that way it sends all data once to the same page with one submit button

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<form method ="post" action="reguser.php">
Type Username Here: <input type="text" name="player" size="21"><br>
Type Password Here: <input type="text" name="password" size "15"><br>
ReType Password Again: <input type="text" name="pass2" size "15"><br>
Type Email Address: <input type="text" name="email" size "60"><br>

<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="0" checked="checked" /> Male
<input type ="radio" name="gender" value="1" /> Female

<input type ="radio" name="race" value="0" checked="checked" /> Human
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="1" /> Hybrid
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="2" /> Kamere
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="3" /> Rilon
<input type ="radio" name="race" value="4" /> Konori
</form

then on reguser

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$player = $_POST['player'];
$pass = $_POST['pass'];
$pass2 = $_POST['pass2'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$gender = $_POST['gender'];
$race = $_POST['race'];

[RogueTomboy]

Thanks Halls, got it to work XD