Option Forms Help Needed

[`Yousef]

Alright, this isn't really PHP I guess but it will integrate with my PHP script so .

 

I was wondering if a drop-down menu can have two values for each option, for example:

 

<select name="type">
<option value="18">PSP</option>
<option value="18">iPOD</option>
<option value="5">FLV</option>
</select> 

 

This is for my YouTube to PSP/iPOD whatever script. It uses the numeric value and adds it to the YouTube URL in the format &fmt=value which codes as

 

"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$var_id."&t=".$var_t."&fmt=".$_POST['type'];

 

However I want to add a second value or something that would allow me to rotate certain things on the landing page in order to make it a more targetted experience for them.

 

Anyway I can go about doing this? Any help greatly appreciated .

 

[Aravinthan]

I think you can have the same values, not sure thou.

 

Just run it to see if it works.

[`Yousef]

Yeah you can have the same values but I want to know if you can add a second value or something that I could use in my PHP landing page rotator to differentiate between the two options that have the value 18.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You can put any string in as the value attribute. A common method is to concatenate using a separator character, like |, and then explode the data on that separator character to retreive each piece.

 

value= "18|abc"

 

list($value1,$value2) = explode("|",$_POST['type']);

 

 

[`Yousef]

Ah right, so $value1 would be used in the

&fmt='$value1'

and then the landing page/ad rotator would be decided base on $value2 for example?