Getting radio button value and sending through ajax to php

Question

I have a poll on my website which displays radio buttons next to each answer. When the user selects an option and submits, im running a a php script via ajax to insert the v

Answer 1

  $optionID = "="+optionID;

I don't quite understand what you are trying to do here o.O, in javascript you don't define your variables using $.

data: { optionID : option}

using it like this should work. You would retrieve it like this in PHP:

$option_value=$_POST['optionID'];