Efficient Argument Passing

[robbyc]

I have a web service written in object oriented PHP.

 

I have a front end to this web service and for testing purposes I want to be able to configure a number of options from the front end.

 

So I have seven check boxes and each indicate whether a piece of code should be executed or not.

What is the most effective way to encode this information so I can pass it through the application as one argument and decode it when needed. As opposed to passing seven arguments through a number of classes.

 

Thanks