On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Rob Gould<gouldimg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a webpage which allows people to log in and make selections with > radio buttons and hit SUBMIT and saves the data from those radio buttons to > a mySQL database. > > However, I'm finding that I also need the ability to allow a user to log > back in at a later date (or even on a different computer), and pull up that > survey again, > with each of the 50-something radio-buttons back in the positions in which > they were last saved. > > Surely there's a best-case-method for doing this type of thing (saving large > numbers of radio-button-group settings to mySQL and pulling them back > again later). Any advice is greatly appreciated. Perhaps there's a > jQuery-way to retrieve all the radio-button group settings as an array and > save it and pull it back again? > Or perhaps a PHP-specific method - - - I'm fine with either. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I've tended to use a binary string for the values, as my radio/ checkboxs tend to be yes / no, so I store the data in a single field as 010111010111100000000101010111000 using 0=no and 1=yes. Then a quick loop through the string sets my values. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
