title: Data type for radio buttons
body: <p>I have a question about radio buttons and data type. I am creating a table as such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   CREATE TABLE `countries`(  
       `name` VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL ,  
       `population` SMALLINT NOT NULL ,  
       `latitude` TINYINT NOT NULL,
       `country_popularity` TINYINT NOT NULL
      );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, I have </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;form method="post" action="countryfact.php"&gt;
  
     &lt;li&gt;Q1. At what latitude can this country be found?
     &lt;input type="radio" name="latitude" value="equator"&gt;Equator
     &lt;input type="radio" name="latitude" value="capricorn"&gt;Capricorn
     &lt;input type="radio" name="latitude" value="cancer"&gt;Cancer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
     &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"&gt;
  
     &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My question is: can the data type TINYINT (or SMALLINT or INT) be used for a radio button with three different values which are strings (capricorn, cancer and equator)? </p>
  
  <p>My second question is about sliders:</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>The slider above refers to the field "country_popularity" above, and I have used the data type "tinyint" for this. Am I correct in using tinyint for a value determined by a slider? This may be a trivial question for some of you, but may not be trivial for someone who does not have mastery of PHP/SQL.</p>