smarty/docs/designers/language-custom-functions/language-function-html-radios.md

# {html_radios}

`{html_radios}` is a [custom function](index.md) that
creates an HTML radio button group. It also takes care of which item is
selected by default as well.

## Attributes

| Attribute Name | Required                            | Description                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|----------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| name           | No                                  | Name of radio list                                                                                                                                                                                |
| values         | Yes, unless using options attribute | An array of values for radio buttons                                                                                                                                                              |
| output         | Yes, unless using options attribute | An array of output for radio buttons                                                                                                                                                              |
| selected       | No                                  | The selected radio element                                                                                                                                                                        |
| options        | Yes, unless using values and output | An associative array of values and output                                                                                                                                                         |
| separator      | No                                  | String of text to separate each radio item                                                                                                                                                        |
| assign         | No                                  | Assign radio tags to an array instead of output                                                                                                                                                   |
| labels         | No                                  | Add <label>-tags to the output (defaults to true)                                                                                                                                                 |
| label\_ids     | No                                  | Add id-attributes to <label\> and <input\> to the output (defaults to false)                                                                                                                      |
| escape         | No                                  | Escape the output / content (values are always escaped) (defaults to true)                                                                                                                        |
| strict         | No                                  | Will make the "extra" attributes *disabled* and *readonly* only be set, if they were supplied with either boolean *TRUE* or string *"disabled"* and *"readonly"* respectively (defaults to false) |

-   Required attributes are `values` and `output`, unless you use
    `options` instead.

-   All output is XHTML compliant.

-   All parameters that are not in the list above are output as
    name/value-pairs inside each of the created `<input>`-tags.

## Examples

```php
<?php

$smarty->assign('cust_ids', array(1000,1001,1002,1003));
$smarty->assign('cust_names', array(
                              'Joe Schmoe',
                              'Jack Smith',
                              'Jane Johnson',
                              'Charlie Brown')
                              );
$smarty->assign('customer_id', 1001);
```
      
Where template is:

```smarty
{html_radios name='id' values=$cust_ids output=$cust_names
       selected=$customer_id separator='<br />'}
```


```php
<?php
$smarty->assign('cust_radios', array(
                               1000 => 'Joe Schmoe',
                               1001 => 'Jack Smith',
                               1002 => 'Jane Johnson',
                               1003 => 'Charlie Brown'));
$smarty->assign('customer_id', 1001);

```

Where template is:

```smarty

{html_radios name='id' options=$cust_radios
     selected=$customer_id separator='<br />'}
```
      
Both examples will output:

```html
<label><input type="radio" name="id" value="1000" />Joe Schmoe</label><br />
<label><input type="radio" name="id" value="1001" checked="checked" />Jack Smith</label><br />
<label><input type="radio" name="id" value="1002" />Jane Johnson</label><br />
<label><input type="radio" name="id" value="1003" />Charlie Brown</label><br />
```
      
```php

<?php

$sql = 'select type_id, types from contact_types order by type';
$smarty->assign('contact_types',$db->getAssoc($sql));

$sql = 'select contact_id, name, email, contact_type_id '
        .'from contacts where contact_id='.$contact_id;
$smarty->assign('contact',$db->getRow($sql));

```

The variable assigned from the database above would be output with the
template:

```smarty
{html_radios name='contact_type_id' options=$contact_types
     selected=$contact.contact_type_id separator='<br />'}
```

See also [`{html_checkboxes}`](language-function-html-checkboxes.md) and
[`{html_options}`](language-function-html-options.md)