Storing a NULL value from a radio_button

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Hi, I’ve a boolean database field (tinyint(1)) wich allows nulls.

Then, I’ve something like this:
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,“NULL”)
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,true)
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,false)

The problem is with the 1st radio_button, it doesn’t store a null.
I’ve tried with no luck:

radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,“nil”)
and
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,nil)

no way… any idea??? is possible??

Thanks.

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Hi Matias,

Matias wrote:

Hi, I’ve a boolean database field (tinyint(1)) wich allows
nulls.

Then, I’ve something like this:
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,“NULL”)
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,true)
radio_button(‘server’,‘customer_has_login’,false)

The problem is with the 1st radio_button, it doesn’t store a null.
I’ve tried with no luck:

From a human factors perspective, it makes no sense to present a user with
an option to select from true, false, or NULL. From a CS perspective,
booleans are for two-option choices, not three-option choices. You
haven’t
said what you’re trying to accomplish, so I’m guessing here, but if you
want
to set the initial value to NULL you’d do it in your database
definition.
If you’re looking for something else, like trying to allow the user to
tell
you “I don’t know”, then change your field definition to varchar(7) and
put
‘true’, ‘false’, or ‘unknown’ in it.

hth,
Bill

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Thanks,

I think I’m going to change the column type to char(1) and use simple
characters instead.

Thanks.