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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:21:21+00:00

Newbie here. I am trying to display more than one Multiple questions on a

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Newbie here. I am trying to display more than one Multiple questions on a form with multiple choice answers displayed as radio buttons. A user should be able to select one answer(radion button) per question.

My problem is that once I display the questions and the answers, I can only select one radio button on the form(not per question). In the code below, qid is the question Id and aid is the answer Id. For each question retrieved from the database, the radio button group would get the question number assigned to the name.

For ex: question 1 has 4 multiple choice answers with name = 1 , question 2 has 4 multiple choice answers with name = 2 and so on.

So when the user selects an answer for question 1 and picks an answer to question 2, the selected answer for question 1 is cleared. 

<body style="margin: 100px;">
    <?php foreach ($questions as $question) : ?>
        <small>(<?php echo $question['qid']; ?>)</small>
        <strong><?php echo $question['qdesc']; ?></strong>

        <ol>
           <?php foreach ($answers[$question['qid']] as $answer) : ?>
                <li><label><input type="radio" name=$question['qid'] value=$answer['aid']><?php  echo $answer['adesc']; ?></label></li>               
           <?php endforeach; ?>
        </ol>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</body>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your radio button name has PHP code that is missing the opening and closing PHP tags (also missing quotes):

    <li><label><input type="radio" name="q_<?php echo $question['qid']; ?>" value="<?php echo $answer['aid']; ?>"><?php  echo $answer['adesc']; ?></label></li>

    You might also want to include a prefix (as above) so that the names are not just numbers.

    Because your radio groups all had the same name, it meant that were all treated as a single group and so only lets you select one.

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