I made a form with radio buttons. How can I preserve it's state after a user picked a choice? Then same form will show again in the next page and the radio button that the user picked is enabled.
//page1.html
<form method="post" action="page2.html">
<p>
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="A" />
A. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="B" />
B. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="C" />
C. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="D" />
D.
<p>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Enter" />
</p>
</form>
To get the value of q1
on the next page, you would use $_POST['q1']
. You can verify that the element has been posted, and the value matches the specific radio button by using if(isset($_POST['q1'])) && $_POST['q1'] == VALUE
. So your form code would look like -
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="A" <?php if(isset($_POST['q1']) && ($_POST['q1'] == 'A')) echo 'checked="checked" ';?>/>
A. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="B" <?php if(isset($_POST['q1']) && ($_POST['q1'] == 'B')) echo 'checked="checked" ';?>/>
B. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="C" <?php if(isset($_POST['q1']) && ($_POST['q1'] == 'C')) echo 'checked="checked" ';?>/>
C. <br />
<input type="radio" name="q1" value="D" <?php if(isset($_POST['q1']) && ($_POST['q1'] == 'D')) echo 'checked="checked" ';?>/>