Send Radio Button Results to another form page

Hi There,
I am having an issue sending my radio button information to another page of the form!

I have a form where the user inputs info, once they hit next, they should be taken to page 2 of the form, where elements are prepopulated from the last page.
I am able to send text box info to my second page with no problems, I can even send the radio button info to the second page, but cannot get it to populate my radio button.

Here is an example of the code I have

page1.php

<form Name="form" method="POST" action="page2.php" >
<br>
<b>When do you want to begin?&nbsp;*</b><span>
<input name=begin type=radio class=mainForm id=begin value="Immediately" checked />
<label>Immediately</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=begin id=begin value="1-6 months" />
<label>1-6 months</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=begin id=begin value="Don't Know" />
<label>Don't Know</label></span><br />
<br>
    
<b>Best Time to Call&nbsp;*</b><span>
<input name=call type=radio class=mainForm id=call value="Morning" checked />
<label>Morning</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=call id=call value="Evening " />
<label>Evening </label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=call id=call value="Anytime" />
<label>Anytime</label>
</span><br />

<br>	<Input Name="nextButton" Value="Next" Type="submit" />
</form>

Code (markup):

page2.php

<?php 
$sbegin = $_POST['begin'];
$scall = $_POST['call'];

?>
<form Name="form" method="POST" action="page2.php" >
<b>When do you want to begin?&nbsp;*</b><span>
<input name=begin type=radio class=mainForm id=begin value="Immediately" checked />
<label>Immediately</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=begin id=begin value="1-6 months" />
<label>1-6 months</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=begin id=begin value="Don't Know" />
<label>Don't Know</label></span><br />
<br>
    
<b>Best Time to Call&nbsp;*</b><span>
<input name=call type=radio class=mainForm id=call value="Morning" checked />
<label>Morning</label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=call id=call value="Evening " />
<label>Evening </label>
<input class=mainForm type=radio name=call id=call value="Anytime" />
<label>Anytime</label>
</span>
<p><br>
  Other info.......</p>
<p><br />
  <Input Name="submitButton" Value="Submit" Type="submit" />
</p>
</form>

Code (markup):

I have a lot more irrelavant code that I have not posted here.
But I just need to know how I can take the value I have captured from the previous page and get it to populate the radio button on page 2 with the result from page 1.

Thanks in advance

 

To populate a radio button you need to specify checked within the declaration.

<input name=call type=radio class=mainForm id=call value="Morning" checked />

Code (markup):

Just like you have there but as you're using XHTML (ends in " />" rather than ">") you need to change the line to read like this:

<input name="call" type="radio" class="mainForm" id="call" value="Morning" checked="checked" />

Code (markup):

Note the addition of double quotes as well!

If a radio button is or isn't selected all depends on the presence of checked="checked" and we can add that by reading the state of the checkbox from the previous page with this:

$chk=$_POST['call'];

PHP:

Adding that into our XHTML for the radio button we get this:

<input name="call" type="radio" class="mainForm" id="call" value="Morning" <?=($chk ? 'checked="checked" ' : '')?>/>

Code (markup):

Note the space after the closing double quote after the checked bit - this is to keep the XHTML tidy and leave a space before the ending slash.

If you find problems persisting it might be because you have instances where ID and NAME are called "call" together - I'd change one to be safe and to help you read the page at a later date.

 

Hi There,
Thanks for the post.
I must be doing something wrong because now all my radio buttons are blank when I pass the values to the page.

I have checked to see if the checked value of each radio button is being passed to the form, and the values are being passed without a problem.
I have also renamed the ID of each of the radio buttons so there is no confusion.
Any other ideas? I am going to try a few things now.

Thanks