drop down menu - PHP get dropdownlist select option value

Question

In my dropdownlist I have two different values for each option. How can I retrieve both? Let me illustrate what I mean.

<select name="my_ddl">
  <option value="<?php $value_Id ?>"><?php $value_text ?></option>
  <option value="<?php $value_Id ?>"><?php $value_text ?></option>
</select>

When the form is posted, I want to be able to get both the $value_id and $value_text of the selected option. How can I do this?

$_POST['my_ddl'] only gets one value not both.

In asp.net I could do this simply by referring to my_ddl.Value and my_ddl.Text.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Strictly, this is not possible.

What you could do is use a delimiter in your value attribute:

<select name="my_ddl">
  <option value="<?php echo $value_Id ?>|<?php echo $value_text ?>"><?php echo $value_text ?>   
  </option>
</select>

And...

<?php    
   list($id, $text) = explode('|', $_POST['my_ddl']);
   //...
?>