Change gender dropdown to radio button in magento - magento

Question

Today i started working in registration form in magento site. As you know by default it's having gender drop down. I need to change that to checkbox.
So far i went to register.phtml file, and tried to add <input type="radio" ...../> select files, but this didn't worked.
Did anyone know how to solve this !
please give me some suggestions to so this....

Answer 1

Do not forget the validation!
<div class="input-box">
<?php
$options = Mage::getResourceSingleton('customer/customer')->getAttribute('gender')->getSource()->getAllOptions();
$value = $this->getGender();
$_last = count($options);
$_index = 0;
?>
<?php foreach ($options as $option):?>
<?php if($option['value'] != ''): ?>
<input id="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('gender')?>-<?php echo $option['value'] ?>"
class="radio<?php if ($this->isRequired() && $_index == $_last - 1):?> validate-one-required<?php endif; ?>"
type="radio" title="<?php echo $option['label'] ?>"
value="<?php echo $option['value'] ?>" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('gender')?>"
<?php if ($option['value'] == $value) echo ' checked="checked"' ?>>
<label for="<?php echo $this->getFieldId('gender')?>-<?php echo $option['value'] ?>">
<?php echo $option['label'] ?>
</label>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php $_index++; ?>
<?php endforeach;?>
</div>

Answer 2

Magento uses widgets on registration form. In fact in template register.phtml you can see lines:
<?php $_gender = $this->getLayout()->createBlock('customer/widget_gender') ?>
<?php if ($_gender->isEnabled()): ?>
<li><?php echo $_gender->setGender($this->getFormData()->getGender())->toHtml() ?></li>
<?php endif ?>
This particular widget can be found in template/customer/widget directory. So in order to change select into radio buttons, copy it (template) to your theme and modify, e.g.:
<div class="input-box">
<label><?php echo $this->__('Gender'); ?></label>
<?php $options = Mage::getResourceSingleton('customer/customer')->getAttribute('gender')->getSource()->getAllOptions();?>
<?php $value = $this->getGender();?>
<?php foreach ($options as $option):?>
<input type="radio" name="<?php echo $this->getFieldName('gender')?>" value="<?php echo $option['value'] ?>"<?php if ($option['value'] == $value) echo ' selected="selected"' ?> /><?php echo $option['label'] ?>
<br />
<?php endforeach;?>
</div>
Hope didn't make any typo.