Ok I have a quality assurance page where I ask 10 questions.
Answers to all questions are yes, no or na. All the different questions have different points assigned to them so like question one would have 2 points if the user answers yes or n/a and of course 0 points if answer is no vs question two which may have 5 points if answer is yes or na and 0 points if answer is 0.

So my issue is as someone fills out the form I need the page to tally the points and display it on the page (I know javascript can do this) but my issue is the I also need to be able to display what answers where put in for what questions. Answers are yes, no and na . So since each question has radio clicks and when you click a yes it has a value of how many points are assigned to that answer how do I know which answer was clicked when I display the data back.

I mean if someone answers yes or na they get the same about of points. So then when I pull from a mysql database the answer that was entered to question 2 the var maybe 5 but 5 would not tell me if it was yes that was clicked or na that was clicked for that question.

So in essence I need to have my radio clicks have 2 values one that is used to enter into a mysql database and one that is used by javascript to sum up on the page. Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks

the name attribute of the radio elements in a question-ans should be kept same (eg. name="Q1") for all the 3 ans radio buttons but their value attribute should be different. (eg. value="yes" for 1st, value="no" for 2nd, value="na" for 3rd) :)

Well that doesn't really help me unless I am not understanding your answer.

All my radio buttons have a name so like the yes no and na radio clicks for question1 have a name of q1 vs the yes no and na for question two radio clicks are all called q2 they also all have valuyes which is how I am able to sum up each answer and display it to the page. My issue is when I go to put the values of each clicked radio into the database I need to know if the value is representing yes no or na. and since yes and na both have a value that are the same I need some advice on how to maybe have my radio clicks have a 2nd value attribute which could be 1 2 or 3 which then can help me know which answer was clicks (i.e., yes, no, na)

here is one of my radio clicks to one of the questions
which may help

<input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game0' value="5" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#009900'" >
<B>N</B><BR><input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game1' value="0" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#990000'">
<B>N/A</B><BR><input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game2' value="5" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#93DCFF'">


then I have my javascript which sums the value of all clicked radios

function UpdateCost() {
var sum = 0;
var gn, elem;
for (i=0; i<29; i++) {
gn = 'game'+i;
elem = document.getElementById(gn);
if (elem.checked == true) { sum += Number(elem.value); }
}
document.getElementById('totalcost').value = sum.toFixed(0);
}


So know when I go to enter the value of the clicked radio for the first question my $_post['Q1'] is always going to be a value of 0 or 5 and I need to know if the value is 5 if that 5 means yes was clicked or na was clicked. which brings me back to needing my radio click to have a second value='' which I can make be 1 , 2 ,3 to help me know which actual radio was click

hope this makes it clearer what I need to do?
Thanks

I'd prefix the value with a value relating to the answer. ie:


<input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game0' value="Y5" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#009900'" >
<input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game1' value="N0" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#990000'">
<input type="radio" name='Q1' id='game2' value="A5" onClick="UpdateCost(), document.getElementById('color').style.background='#93DCFF'">


And then use substr() to grab the number from the value:


function UpdateCost() {
var sum = 0;
var gn, elem;
for (i=0; i<29; i++) {
gn = 'game'+i;
elem = document.getElementById(gn);
if (elem.checked == true) { sum += Number(elem.value.substr(1)); }
}
document.getElementById('totalcost').value = sum.toFixed(0);
}