Question

I currently have a form with lets say 5 radio button entries (see below).
What im looking archive is the following:
– Being able to choose multiple radio buttons – lets say 3 and submit the form.

Currently I got it working fine with PHP, SQL, but im only able to choose one radiobutton and submit that.

I figure it would also come in handy being able to deselect a radio button in case you wrongly click one.

My guess is that this can be done through some javascript? Any suggestions? Online examples perhaps?

<form id="pollform" action="poll.php" method="post">
<input id="option-1" type="radio" value="1" name="poll">
<label for="option-1">Select option 1</label>

<input id="option-2" type="radio" value="2" name="poll">
<label for="option-2">Select option 2</label>

<input id="option-3" type="radio" value="3" name="poll">
<label for="option-3">Select option 3</label>

<input id="option-4" type="radio" value="4" name="poll">
<label for="option-4">Select option 4</label>

<input id="option-5" type="radio" value="5" name="poll">
<label for="option-5">Select option 5</label>
</form>

Answer 1

As it has same name poll you will not be able to do that as input type radio is specialized in selecting a single value from multiple inputs.

You can use input type checkbox for that and make them as an array:

<form id="pollform" action="poll.php" method="post">
    <input id="option-1" type="checkbox" value="1" name="poll[]">
    <label for="option-1">Select option 1</label>

    <input id="option-2" type="checkbox" value="2" name="poll[]">
    <label for="option-2">Select option 2</label>

    <input id="option-3" type="checkbox" value="3" name="poll[]">
    <label for="option-3">Select option 3</label>

    <input id="option-4" type="checkbox" value="4" name="poll[]">
    <label for="option-4">Select option 4</label>

    <input id="option-5" type="checkbox" value="5" name="poll[]">
    <label for="option-5">Select option 5</label>
</form>

LIMIT (with jQuery) the number:

$("input[type=checkbox][name=poll[]]").click(function() {
    var numberSel = $("input[type=checkbox][name=poll[]]:checked").length >= 3;     
    $("input[type=checkbox][name=poll[]]").not(":checked").attr("disabled",numberSel);
});