PHP: cannot retrieve data from radio button POST - php

Question

I'm having issues with retrieving data from the radio button. I can retrieve other data from the other html tags but in radio button I cannot. Why is that? Can you help me?
My HTML code is here:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="markpayment" method="post" action="test.app">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="mark_payment">
<input type="hidden" name="client-id" value="{$details[row]->id}">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice-id" value="{$details[row]->invoice_id}">
<input type="hidden" name="period" value="{$details[row]->period}">
<table width="100%" border="0" style="padding-top: 10px;">
<tr align="center">
<td class="radiobut">
<input type="radio" id="choice1" name="payment_status" value="paid"> Paid</td>
<td class="radiobut">
<input type="radio" id="choice2" name="payment_status" value="declined"> Declined</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td colspan="2">
<div class="paddingRow3">
<select class="selectbut" id="payments" name="payment-method">
<option value="Cheque">Cheque</option>
<option value="Deposit">Deposit</option>
<option value="Cash">Cash</option>
</select>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td colspan="2">
<div class="paddingRow3">
Update
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
While my PHP script is here:
if($_REQUEST['action'] == 'mark_payment'){
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_REQUEST);
exit;
}
My output will be just like this:
Array
(
[NONCE] => f305790c4d8b060121b99fe84a8fdf1a62321b3b06b9097caa8439e2f9c5bae7
[action] => mark_payment
[client-id] => 2699422
[invoice-id] => 13008351
[period] => 11
[payment-method] => Cheque
)

Answer 1

You have duplicate name attributes of payment_status for your two choices. They need to be different, or only the last input element (#choice2) will be available.
I've gone with payment_status_paid and payment_status_declined in the following example, but you can also use the square bracket notation name="payment_status[]" to make an array of POST data.
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="markpayment" method="post" action="test.app">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="mark_payment">
<input type="hidden" name="client-id" value="{$details[row]->id}">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice-id" value="{$details[row]->invoice_id}">
<input type="hidden" name="period" value="{$details[row]->period}">
<table width="100%" border="0" style="padding-top: 10px;">
<tr align="center">
<td class="radiobut">
<input type="radio" id="choice1" name="payment_status_paid" value="paid"> Paid</td>
<td class="radiobut">
<input type="radio" id="choice2" name="payment_status_declined" value="declined"> Declined</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td colspan="2">
<div class="paddingRow3">
<select class="selectbut" id="payments" name="payment-method">
<option value="Cheque">Cheque</option>
<option value="Deposit">Deposit</option>
<option value="Cash">Cash</option>
</select>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="right">
<td colspan="2">
<div class="paddingRow3">
Update
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
To find which one is chosen, use a conditional:
if($_REQUEST['action'] == 'mark_payment'){
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_REQUEST);
if ($_POST['payment_status_paid']) {
// Payment was successful
}
else {
// Payment was declined
}
exit;
}
Hope this helps!