hello everyone okay ive never used radio buttons or anything of the sort so dont have a clue were to start.

basicly i need to build a simple question form with 4 answers and only one right and if the true one is selected then 1 message is printed and if false then 2 message is printed

simple but i dont know were to start...

any help is much appreciated
thankyou
Lewis

You do realize that you're not asking for help, but asking for someone to code a script for you, right? Well, you couch it in "I don't know where to start", but that's after you've said, effectively:

1) I need a form with 4 options.
2) I need the script to print a success message if the selected answer is correct; a failure message otherwise.

Start with the first part -- how do you create a form? Too generic really for a forum post, so you may want to start by looking at some PHP tutorials.

Before coding, be sure to take the time to learn the concepts. Otherwise, you'll get stuck on just about everything you try to do.

If coding isn't your thing, then hiring a pro should be.

hiring a pro to do this what is a 5 minute job... i dont think so

i was going to post the html section but i didn't think it was really worth it as it was soo simple but i didnt know were to start with the php even after looking at tutorials as none of them worked as i wanted it to work

From your description of the problem, I would think AJAX would actually be the best tool for the job. There's no sense in doing a round trip to the server for the whole page just for a quick "You guessed wrong. Please try again." message.

come on man, he's asking for help in how to do this, this is a help forum and yes.. it is simple

<form action="result.php" method="post">
  Answer 1 <input type="radio" name="ans" value="ans1" /><br />
  Answer 2 <input type="radio" name="ans" value="ans2"  /><br />
  Answer 3 <input type="radio" name="ans" value="ans3"  /><br />
  Answer 4 <input type="radio" name="ans" value="ans4"  /><br />
  <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

result.php

PHP Code:

<?php 

$answer = $_POST['ans'];

    if ($answer == "ans1") {
        
        echo 'Correct';
        
    }
    
    else {
        
        echo 'Incorrect';
        
    }    
        
?>

My point was for him/her to try. Not so much as an attempt at the code was made (or, at least, provided); but a request for the code to simply be handed over. I don't see the value in "helping" by "doing" (except in the case where the doing exposes the information necessary for education).

So, to bump this thread up to being a bit more educational, let's extend this to any number of questions with the option of a different response for each option:

PHP Code:

<?php
$available_options = array("op1_value"=>"Option 1",
                           "op2_value"=>"Option 2",
                           "op3_value"=>"Option 3",
                           "op4_value"=>"Option 4",
                           "op5_value"=>"Option 5",
                           "op6_value"=>"Option 6",
                          );

$processing_message = '';
if (isset($_POST['option_choice'])) {
  switch ($_POST['option_choice']) {
    case 'op1_value':
      $processing_message = 'Nice choice!';
      break;
    case 'op2_value':
      $processing_message = 'Good choice.';
      break;
    case 'op3_value':
      $processing_message = 'OK choice.';
      break;
    case 'op4_value':
      $processing_message = 'Moderate choice.';
      break;
    case 'op5_value':
      $processing_message = 'Horrible choice.';
      break;
    default:
      $processing_message = 'Incorrect';
      //In this example, either op6_value is chosen, or something else was entered (say through a hack of the form)
      break;
  }
}
if (strlen($processing_message) > 0) {
  echo '<div class="processing_message">'.$processing_message.'</div>';
}
echo '<form method="post" action="'.basename(__file__).'">';
foreach($available_options as $option_value=>$option_label) {
  //Notice the use of the ternary operator ()?: to check the selected radio button after the form was submitted.
  echo $option_label.'<input type="radio" name="option_choice" value="'.$option_value.'" '.(($option_value == $_POST['option_choice'])?' checked="checked"':'').'/><br />';
}
echo '<input type="submit" value="Check Answer" />';
echo '</form>';
?>

thank you ever soo much
and it is educational reading other peoples code as then if you know the basics or even moderate knowledge then you learn how the next things work by reading the codes...

Puh-lease people. You didn't even present an attempt at the code.