title: How to get status of radio buttons
body: <p>Please how can I get the status of radio buttons based on their value in the database?
  I want to set them to either checked or unchecked based on their respective values in the database. field_type is int(1 or 0).
  Is there a more efficient way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>$news_alert_status_a = "unchecked";
          $news_alert_status_k = "unchecked";
          $news_alert_status_n = "unchecked";</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $events_alert_status_a = "unchecked";
      $events_alert_status_k = "unchecked";
      $events_alert_status_n = "unchecked";
  
      $questions_alert_status_a = "unchecked";
      $questions_alert_status_k = "unchecked";
      $questions_alert_status_n = "unchecked";
  
      $editorials_alert_status_a = "unchecked";
      $editorials_alert_status_k = "unchecked";
      $editorials_alert_status_n = "unchecked";
  
  
      if ($news_alert == 1)
      {
          $news_alert_status_a = "checked";
      }
      elseif ($news_alert == 2)
      {
          $news_alert_status_k = "checked";
  }
  elseif($news_alert == 3)
  {
      $news_alert_status_n = "checked";
  }
  
  
  if ($events_alert == 1)
      {
          $events_alert_status_a = "checked";
      }
      elseif ($events_alert == 2)
      {
          $events_alert_status_k = "checked";
  }
  elseif($events_alert == 3)
  {
      $events_alert_status_n = "checked";
  }
  
  if ($questions_alert == 1)
      {
          $questions_alert_status_a = "checked";
      }
      elseif ($questions_alert == 2)
      {
          $questions_alert_status_k = "checked";
  }
  elseif($questions_alert == 3)
  {
      $questions_alert_status_n = "checked";
  }       
  
  if ($editorials_alert == 1)
      {
          $editorials_alert_status_a = "checked";
      }
      elseif ($editorials_alert == 2)
      {
          $editorials_alert_status_k = "checked";
  }
  elseif($editorials_alert == 3)
  {
      $editorials_alert_status_n = "checked";
  }           
  </code></pre>