Initializing Form Radio Checked Based on Variable

[OtagoHarbour]

I have a set of radio buttons in a form and would like to initialize which button is checked based upon a session variable. The code I tried was as follows.

<table border="1">	<tr>	<th align="center" colspan="2" style="background:orange">Look Up Table</th>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="GREY" value="GREY" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" 		checked='<?php echo ($_SESSION['LUT']=="GREY") ?>'/>Gray</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="HOS" value="HOS" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Heated Object</td>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="RAINBOW" value="RAINBOW" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Rainbow</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="ARCTIC" value="ARCTIC" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Arctic</td><table>

But the "Gray" button is checked despite the fact that $_SESSION['LUT']!="GREY".Another approach would be to use a DOM function as shown here http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_radio_checked.asp. However this example calls the check() and uncheck() functions based upon an event. There does not appear to be an initialize event for tables. Does <table> have an option for calling an initialization function?Many thanks in advance for any help,Peter.

[thescientist]

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that line per se, but the checked property requires a true/false value.http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_checkbox_checked.aspA more practical application of this functionality would be to do something like this; which is to usually do all your PHP work at the beginning of the document; i.e. do calculations, set flags, etc and then use the resulting variables simply throughout the rest of the page. so, something like this:page.php

<?php  $lutCheckedStatus = false;    if($_SESSION['LUT'] == "GREY"){	$lutCheckedStatus = true;  };?><table border="1">	<tr>	<th align="center" colspan="2" style="background:orange">Look Up Table</th>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="GREY" value="GREY" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" 		checked='<?php echo $lutCheckedStatus ?>'/>Gray</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="HOS" value="HOS" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Heated Object</td>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="RAINBOW" value="RAINBOW" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Rainbow</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="ARCTIC" value="ARCTIC" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Arctic</td><table>

[OtagoHarbour]

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that line per se, but the checked property requires a true/false value.http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_checkbox_checked.aspA more practical application of this functionality would be to do something like this; which is to usually do all your PHP work at the beginning of the document; i.e. do calculations, set flags, etc and then use the resulting variables simply throughout the rest of the page. so, something like this:page.php

<?php  $lutCheckedStatus = false;    if($_SESSION['LUT'] == "GREY"){	$lutCheckedStatus = true;  };?><table border="1">	<tr>	<th align="center" colspan="2" style="background:orange">Look Up Table</th>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="GREY" value="GREY" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" 		checked='<?php echo $lutCheckedStatus ?>'/>Gray</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="HOS" value="HOS" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Heated Object</td>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="RAINBOW" value="RAINBOW" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Rainbow</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="ARCTIC" value="ARCTIC" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" />Arctic</td><table>

Thank you for your help. I ended up taking that general approach but I found that the last radio button that had checked in it was checked even if I set checked=false. However I found that this works.

<?php   	$greyLUT=($_SESSION['LUT']=='GREY')? "checked" : " ";   	$hosLUT=($_SESSION['LUT']=='HOS')? "checked" : " ";   	$raindowLUT=($_SESSION['LUT']=='RAINBOW')? "checked" : " ";   	$arcticLUT=($_SESSION['LUT']=='ARCTIC')? "checked" : " ";   	$fireLUT=($_SESSION['LUT']=='FIRE')? "checked" : " ";?><table border="1">	<tr>	<th align="center" colspan="2" style="background:orange">Look Up Table</th>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="GREY" value="GREY" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" 		<?php echo $greyLUT ?>/>Gray</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="HOS" value="HOS" onclick="EnableNonlinear()" 		<?php echo $hosLUT ?>/>Heated Object</td>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="RAINBOW" value="RAINBOW" onclick="EnableNonlinear()"  		<?php echo $raindowLUT ?>/>Rainbow</td>	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="ARCTIC" value="ARCTIC" onclick="EnableNonlinear()"  		<?php echo $arcticLUT ?>/>Arctic</td>	</tr>	<tr align="left">	<td><input type="radio" name="LUT" id="FIRE" value="FIRE" onclick="EnableNonlinear()"   		<?php echo $fireLUT ?>/>Fire</td></table>

Thanks again for your help,Peter.

[thescientist]

my bad. it is correct that the HTML syntax should be

checked="checked"

however, for dealing with JS/HTML DOM directly, it should be true/false.

[OtagoHarbour]

my bad. it is correct that the HTML syntax should be

checked="checked"

however, for dealing with JS/HTML DOM directly, it should be true/false.

I was thinking of using DOM but it seems that the associated functions are event driven. I could not see where to call a function to initialize the table.Thanks,Peter.

[thescientist]

nope, you have it right. I live in the JS/DOM world so much I forget the simpler things sometimes