I'm creating a website for the movie theatre in my town. Right now I'm trying to make it easy to change the "Now Playing" and "Coming Soon" movies that are displayed on the homepage.

I'm using a flat-file to store the values for the movie title, review URL, running time, and rating. On the edit page I've been able to have the form show everything that is currently in the flat-file, except for the rating.

On the edit form I have text fields for the title, review, and time, but I have radio buttons for the rating.

Is it possible to take the rating value from the flat-file and have the corresponding radio button selected whenever the edit page is loaded?

I'm thinking that I'll have to do a lot of if and else statements, but I want to make sure there's not another way.

Thanks,
JC2

Personally, I would just generate the ratings dynamically using images (radio buttons are great for making choices, but not needed for just displaying data back)...

Say you have a "dark" star and a "highlighted" star...then you can do something like this (assuming you don't mind nesting a table):

PHP Code:

<table><tr>
<?
/* Set $rating and $maxRating before we get here
Fill in the 'bright' rating images to signify the number of stars a particular movie has received */
for ($i=0; $i<=$rating; $i++) {
?>
<td><img src="images/brightstar.png"></td>
<?
}
/* Fill in the rest of the dimmed rating images to show how much better
this movie SHOULD have been ;) */
for ($i=$rating+1; $i<=$maxRating; $i++) {
?>
<td><img src="images/dimstar.png"></td>
<?
}
print "</tr></table>";
/* The rest of your PHP goes down here */
?>