using a radio button in cfmail / form.

Report · Jan 15, 2010

Hello;

This is a silly question, but I can't remember how to program in radio buttons for a cfmailer. I have 3 radio buttons, basically, I just need to know what the users choice was when they checked it off. The following is my radio buttons and what I have for code right now. But I'm not grabbing the proper variable, I also tried dumping a few diffrerent variables to see if I could get it.

<input name="type" type="radio" onClick="setVisibility('sub3', 'inline');setVisibility('sub4','none');setVisibility('sub5','none');" value='male' checked="checked"/>Magnets
<input type="radio" name="type" value='female' onClick="setVisibility('sub3', 'none');setVisibility('sub4','inline');setVisibility('sub5', 'none');"/>Paper Steel
<input type="radio" name="type" value='child' onClick="setVisibility('sub3', 'none');setVisibility('sub4','none');setVisibility('sub5', 'inline');"/> both

on my response page, I tried this:

if this was their choice, then this set of rules would apply

</cfif>

and so on for the other two choices. This isn't catching my buttons, what am I doing wrong? do I need to make a paramiter for the radio buttons before I can allow it to function? like this?

then I can use my if statement? (that isn't working right now either)

here is what I'm trying to dump:

How do I do this? Can anyone help me?

Report · Jan 15, 2010

Make sure you specify the form's action and method, for example,

Report · Jan 15, 2010

I have all that. I was just posting the code for the radio bu

ttons.

my if statement isn't catching them. can you help me on that? What variables am I supposed to go after?

Report · Jan 15, 2010

Replace single quotes by double quotes. Change <input ... value='male' ...>, <input ... value='female' ...>, etc., to <input ... value="male" ...>, <input ... value="female" ...>, ... respectively.

Report · Jan 15, 2010

lol, I just tried fixing all that, and

even added an id field. I think it's my "if" statement now.

you get this

</cfif>

you get this

</cfif>

you get this

</cfif>

am I going after this wrong? I know a radio button is treated as a yes/no type input. I also know i can use it like this and still have it work.

Report · Jan 15, 2010

I suspect that you have a problem in some portion of your code that you have not posted. To help debugging I suggest you create a simple test using two pages: input.cfm and action.cfm. Get the most simple case working then add the javascript, css, and CF code to make your application work.

<!--- contents of input.cfm --->
<html>
<head>
     <title>Input</title>
</head>

<body>

     <form action="action.cfm" method="POST">
          Choose type: <br />
          <input name="type" type="radio" value="male" />     Male<br />
          <input name="type" type="radio" value="female" /> Female<br />
          <input type="submit" />
     </form>

</body>
</html>

<!--- content of action.cfm --->
<html>
<head>
     <title>Action</title>
</head>

<body>

     <cfif form.type eq "male">
          Type is male.
     <cfelseif form.type eq "female">
          Type is female.
     </cfif>
     
     Here is a cfdump of the form variables:<br />
     <cfdump var="#form#" />

</body>
     

</html>

Message was edited by: JR "Bob" Dobbs Added sample for action.cfm

Report · Jan 15, 2010

<cfif form.type EQ ('male')>
you get this
</cfif>
<cfif form.type EQ ('female')>
you get this
</cfif>
<cfif form.type EQ ('child')>
you get this
</cfif>

It should be without the brackets. What happens when you drop the brackets, like this

you get this

</cfif>

you get this

</cfif>

you get this

</cfif>

What happens when you omit the onClick attribute, and experiment with

Report · Jan 15, 2010

I figured it out. It's because I'm using this as my submit button:

It doesn't like the image submit button.

So looks like this is out... unless someone knows a better way to get it to work using it. I couldn't even get the form to dump with this in. once I put in a real submit button, it all works.

thanks for the help

Report · Jan 15, 2010

cfsetNewbie,

Does the cfinput of type="image" render an HTML input type="button" tag or a input type="submit" tag in the browser?

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