Trying to get value of Option Name

[esmejo]

I have a select box like this:
<select name ="counselor">
<option value = "[e-mail]">Esme</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Shira</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Carey</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Meredith</option>

<option value = "[e-mail]">Collen</option>

<option value = "[e-mail]">Theresa</option>

</select>

I want to find out not only the value, I got that already by doing this.
$counselor = $HTTP_POST_VARS['counselor'];

I want to get the name associated with the value.
The name: Esme, Shira, Meredith, etc.
Any ideas?

Thank you.
Esme Longoria
http://www.esme.com

[jmarco]

I've never heard of a way that the list-item of the option tag is sent as data upon script submission.

One way you could do it, is possibly:

<select name="emails">
  <option value="[e-mail],Person 1>Person 1</option>
  <option value="[e-mail],Person 2>Person 2</option>
</select>

Then after submitting the form do:

$array = explode(",", $emails);

and get a 2 fielded array.

$email = $array[0];
$name = $array[1];

That might be a dirty way to do it, but theoritically I think it could work, though I haven't tested or tried this.

[jmarco]

ok I wrote this:

$email = "marco@*.com,J Marco";

echo $email."<br />";

$array = explode(",", $email);

for($i = 0; $i < 2; $i++) {
  echo $array[$i]."<br />";
}

$email = $array[0];
$name = $array[1];

echo $email."<br />".$name."<br />";

and got this:

marco@*.com,J Marco
marco@*.com
J Marco
marco@*.com
J Marco

so that method will work..

[NeuX]

I'm pretty sure the name is not posted.

One option is to create a hidden field named "counselor_name" or something else logical, then use javascript to populate this field with the name of the counselor.

I've tested this code with IE6 and Mozilla 1.3. Probably doesn't work with NS4.

<form name="myForm" method="post" action="moo.php">

<select name="counselor" onchange="this.form.counselor_name.value = this.options[ this.selectedIndex ].innerHTML">

<option value = "[e-mail]">Esme</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Shira</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Carey</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Meredith</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Collen</option>
<option value = "[e-mail]">Theresa</option>

</select>

<!--Change this to type = "hidden" when finished testing -->
<input type="text" value="" name="counselor_name">

</form>