Help with select box

[EchoFool]

I am trying to put two values into a select box but I don't how to retrieve them.

 

I have something like this:

<option value="<?=$ItemID?>,Item"><?=$Name?> - Item</option>

 

Then in the form process some how grab Item and grab <?=$ItemID?> value aswell.

Is this possible ?

[Buddski]

Need a little more information

Are your trying to get the 2 values after Posting or before posting?

[pugboy]

PHP is server sided, so the posted form would not read the PHP code. I use the following below, which allows me to get all of my options from 2 text files, but you can modify it to fit your needs...

 

 

				$fileName = "../name.txt";
			$fh = fopen($fileName, 'r');
			$nameB = fread($fh, filesize($fileName));
			fclose($fh);
			$name = explode("\n",$nameB);
			$fileName = "../var.txt";
			$fh = fopen($fileName, 'r');
			$varB = fread($fh, filesize($fileName));
			fclose($fh);
			$var = explode("\n",$varB);
			for ( $id = 0; $id <= $maxid; $id += 1) {
				$indexfiletest = "../account/" . $user . "/" . $var[$id] . "/index.html";
				if(!file_exists($indexfiletest)){
					echo "<option value='$var[$id]'>$name[$id]</option>";
				}
			}

 

 

That will get the variable names from var.txt and the options from name.txt...

 

 

I just echo the whole option tag inside of the select tag.

[EchoFool]

pugboy that looks over complicated for something that is probably simplistic to do. I am aware its server sided.

 

 

I am trying to deal with process (after _POST and on submit)

So value would come out as:

 

2,ITEM lets say in the form process.

Then i need to break that apart to get just:

$id = 2

$type = ITEM

 

At that point i can then put them in to the correct fields in my database.

[Buddski]

After POSTING to a PHP page

 

you can do

 

$vars = explode(',',$_POST['variable']);

 

$id = $vars[0];

$type = $vars[1];

 

You can also do simular with JS for the onSubmit if you are needing so.

[EchoFool]

After POSTING to a PHP page

 

you can do

 

$vars = explode(',',$_POST['variable']);

 

$id = $vars[0];

$type = $vars[1];

 

You can also do simular with JS for the onSubmit if you are needing so.

 

I shall give it a try. Thankyou.