PHP echo dynamic radio button with variable name - php

Question

So i have these radio buttons in XHTML that I want to put into a PHP function to generate and I can't get it to work.
In XHTML it looks like this and is working;
<p><input type="radio" value="<? echo blabla; ?>" name="radioA" checked="checked" /></p>
<input type="hidden" value="<? echo $value; ?>" name="hiddenA[]" />
In PHP I need to set the "radioA" and "hiddenA" to variables respectively "radioB"/"hiddenB", "radioC"/"hiddenC" and so on for my code to work. This is what I have so far but it is not working. The first radio name is a string, but the second one is array. Thanks in advance.
function radio($Radio, $Array) {
echo '<p><input type="radio" value="$value>" name="$Radio" />', $value, '</p>';
echo '<input type="hidden" value="$value" name="$Array" />';
}
I guess what I'm trying to do is to return the name of the variable as a string. $_POST['hiddenA'] ===> hiddenA[]

Answer 1

Basic php syntax:
$a = 'hello';
echo '$a'; // outputs the literal characters $ and a
echo "$a"; // outputs "hello"

Answer 2

You have a few syntax issues here:
function radio($Radio, $Array) {
echo '<p><input type="radio" value="$Value>" name="$Radio" />', $Value, '</p>';
echo '<input type="hidden" value="$Value" name="$Array" />';
}
You have to use "" not '' when embedding variables:
echo "My name is {$name}.";
In PHP the . character is used to append strings not ,
echo "My name is " . $name . " and I am cool";
If you try to echo an array you will get the word Array not the array itself. Instead you can echo a value in the array:
echo "$array[0]";
You are trying to use a variable that is not defined in your example: $Value. This would give you an VariableUndefined exception.
It is generally bad practice to use capital letters at the start of variable names in PHP. So $Array should be $array.
With these in mind you code should look something like:
function radio($radio, $array) {
$value1 = $array[0];
$value2 = $array[1];
echo "<p><input type=\"radio\" value=\"$value1>\" name=\"$radio\" />$value1</p>";
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" value=\"$value2\" name=\"$value2\" />";
}
From the sounds of your example you need a for loop somewhere.