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bady
bady

Reputation: 41

html/php multiple select with two values

I currently edit an open source program and have a question: the php code is actually like this: 

print "<select multiple name=\"appliesto[]\" size=\"5\">";
foreach ($products as $k => $v) {
    $pid = $k;
    $group = $v['group'];
    $prodname = $v['name'];
    print "<option value=\"$pid\">$group - $prodname</option>";
}
print "</select>

Is it possible to get 2 values with each selected option? Because I need to save $pid and $prodname in 2 different columns on a mysql table.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 123

Answers (1)

Jose Rojas
Jose Rojas

Reputation: 3530

You can put at the value attribute some delimiter to the values something like this:

print "<select multiple name=\"appliesto[]\" size=\"5\">";
foreach ($products as $k => $v) {
    $pid = $k;
    $group = $v['group'];
    $prodname = $v['name'];
    print "<option value=\"$pid|$prodname\">$group - $prodname</option>";
}
print "</select>

when you post the data you can explode the data by the delimiter in this case | in order to get the 2 values.

list($pid,$prodname) = explode("|", $inputSelect, 2);

Upvotes: 3

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