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your example is confusing, when you are displaying multiple radio boxes, they should all be NAMED the same, but have different values. i.e.:

<form method=post action=index.php>
Please select a rating:
<br>
  1 <input type=radio name=rating value=1>
  2 <input type=radio name=rating value=2>
  3 <input type=radio name=rating value=3>
<br>
<input type=submit>
</form>

now, i may be misunderstanding you, but if you did want to offer a rating for every componenet based on a component id, i'd do something like this:

PHP Code:

<form method=post action=index.php>
<?
$result = mysql_query("select * from components order by headertxt");


while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
  echo $row['headertxt']."<br>";
  echo "1 <input type=radio name=c[".$row['cID']."] value=1>
  2 <input type=radio name=c[".$row['cID']."] value=2>
  3 <input type=radio name=c[".$row['cID']."] value=3>
  4 <input type=radio name=c[".$row['cID']."] value=4>
  5 <input type=radio name=c[".$row['cID']."] value=5><br><br>\n";
}

echo "<input type=submit name=submit value=submit></form>";

// if submit, print ( or write to db the values )
if($submit){
  if(is_array($c)){
    foreach($c as $key => $value){
      echo "cID=".$key." / value=".$value."<br>\n";
    }
  }
}

hmm .. yeah, i think that is what you're trying to do.