[SOLVED] sending two values in one select

[gwydionwaters]

one select being a select input type in an html form. i don't know if this should go in a java forum or not..

anyway the title says it all, what i want to do is instead of having

<select name="option1"><option value="$var1"></option></select>

i want to be able to send $var1 and $var2 as option1 in a way that i can use both as their own variable in the script they are sent to.

maybe if i were to send it as "$var1,$var2" as $bundle and then somehow separate the two into their own variables on the other side? i am not sure how to do this, or what to google to learn for that matter

[chronister]

yeah, to do what you want, you will have to put them together with some sort of a string seperator and then use explode() on the processing script to split them up.

 

<select name="option1"><option value="<?php echo $var1.','. $var2; ?>"></option></select>

 

On the processing page....

<?php
$splitMe = $_POST['option1'];

$vars = explode(',', $splitMe);

echo 'var1 = '. $var[0];
echo '<br>';
echo 'var2 = '. $var[1];
?>

 

Hope that helps.

 

Nate

[gwydionwaters]

thanks that did the trick