Passing variables

[furious5]

I'm just after a quick bit of advice, if anyone can help.

I've written a script which uses PHP and Javascript

Basically I have an option menu, with values 1,2,3,4 as id's in the select menu, on changing the options it changes the drop down menu below with an array of dates in Javascript.

This works great, my problem is that some of the options have the same id's because they use the same date array's.

Once the date array's have been added, the user the submits the form.

My problem is that I can't identify the value being passed because of ids with the same values, anyone got any ideas on the best way to do about this?

[mattsinclair]

let me get this straight...

you have a form, where users can select from a drop down box (categories), which affects the contents of another drop down box (dates).... the user can then select a date and add it to a listbox...

and when you add it to a list box, you can't distinguish the category because each category has the same dates inside the second listbox?

you could append the category number (1,2,3,4) to the date...

1-243214234
2-243214234
3-243214234

for the names of the listbox...

could you post code

[furious5]

Sure, I won't post all the Javascript as well as it is fairly long!

<form action="drop2.php" method="get" name="search_form" id="search_form">
<table>
	<tr>
		<td>Resort:</td>
		<td>
		<select name="resort" id="resort" onChange="populate()">
			<option value="0">Please Select Resort</option>
			<option value="3">Pollenca</option>
			<option value="3">Cala Dor</option>
			<option value="2">Portugal</option>
			<option value="1">Menorca</option>
		</select>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Date:</td>
		<td>
		<select name="date" id="date">
            <option value="0" selected>Select Date</option>
            <option value="0">Select the date you wish to travel on</option>
		</select>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td>Sleeps:</td>
		<td>
		<select name="beds" class="forminput" id="beds">
			<option value="%" selected>Any
			<option value="4">4
			<option value="5">5
			<option value="6">6
			<option value="7">7
			<option value="8">8
			<option value="9">9
			<option value="10">10
			<option value="11">11
			<option value="12">12
			<option value="13">13
			<option value="14">14
	    </select>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td colspan="2">
	  <div align="center"> 
          <input name="Submit2" type="reset" class="formbutton" value="clear" />
          <input name="Submit" type="submit" class="formbutton" value="search" />
        </div>
	</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>