Hi everyone.
I love 4images. I just started to do some custom work. I read everything and I mean everything I could on the forum about radio buttons. I read the explanation in db_field_definitions.php at least 10 times. I must not understand or don't have the expertise to understand what I read because I can't get it to work. I prefer radio button over a pull down menu for gender selection (I say this because someone already had a mod for pull down, but radio is better, so please don't give me a link to that mod since it is pull down).
I hope by showing you the steps I took someone can tell me what I did wrong.
1. In register_form I added:
<tr>
<td class="row1"><b>Gender</b></td>
<td class="row1">
<input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Male"{user_gender} />
Male
<input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Female"{user_gender} />
Female</td>
</tr>
2. In db_field_definitions.php I added:
$additional_user_fields['user_gender'] = array($lang['user_gender'], "radio", 1);
3. In mysql database I added new fields in 4images_users called user_gender
4. In member_profile I added the following
<tr>
<td class="row2"><strong>Gender</strong></td>
<td class="row2">{user_gender}</td>
</tr>
5. To edit I added in member_editprofile the following (same info as register_form)
<tr>
<td class="row1"><b>Gender</b></td>
<td class="row1">
<input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Male"{user_gender} />
Male
<input type="radio" name="user_gender" value="Female"{user_gender} />
Female</td>
</tr>
When I test, it puts a number 1 in for male. When I edit and change it to female it is puts nothing (blank). Any help in simple terms would be appreciated (sorry I'm new to this).
Thanks