Question

I have a website that asks numerous users to fill out a form.
There are many sections in the form and each section has some number of radio button inputs. For example below are two sections on the website, the first having 3 inputs and the second having 2 (total of 5 different inputs):

There are many more sections to the form, which gives a combined total of 50 different inputs.

The code for the above example for the Marketing Research Team is as follows:

<input type="radio" name="marketT" value="1" checked="checked"/>
<b>Infinity Market Research Company (IMRC)</b> - &euro;10,000/quarter, +/- 5% accuracy<br/>

<input type="radio" name="marketT" value="2"/>
<b>New Age Marketing Agency (NAMA)</b> - &euro;7,000/quarter, +/- 15% accuracy<br/>

<input type="radio" name="marketT" value="3"/>
<b>Byrne Marketing Consultancy (BMC)</b> - &euro;2,000/quarter, +/- 25% accuracy<br/>

I wish to store various bits of information about each users selection although currently I am only storing a decisionValue of either 1,2 or 3, that continues to 50 for all the other inputs based on the above html.

However I am wondering is it possible to pass more than one value for each radio input.
Eg Pass a value of 1, the name of the radio input and the onscreen value

For example if the user selected radio button one for the Marktet Research Team,
A value of “1”, the text “IMRC”, the price “10,000” and the accuracy “5” are all inputted to the system is this possible?

Answer 1

No, it isn’t possible, at least not directly.

Things you can do:

• Make the value an identifier that you map onto something (e.g. a database lookup) on the server
• Make the value a data structure (e.g. pipe separated, comma separated, or JSON) and parse it on the server
• Generate hidden inputs using JavaScript

The JavaScript option is the least robust and I don’t recommend it.