[RESOLVED] Get id of form field

[iNFERiON]

Hi all,

I have a problem with a script I'm writing.
I want PHP to tell me the ID of the option selected in a menu.

I have the following menu in my form:

<form method="post" action="test.php">
  <select name="gender">
  <option id="1">Male</option>
  <option id="2">Female</option>
  </select>
  <input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>

What I want PHP to do when going to test.php is to see what the ID was of the selected option, like if option 1 was selected it should echo "You selected option 1", where the 1 is the id of the option.

How can this be done ?

[devinemke]

<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	echo '
	<form action="" method="POST">
	<select name="gender">
	<option value="1">Male</option>
	<option value="2">Female</option>
	</select>
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go">
	</form>
	';
}
else
{
	echo 'you selected option #' . $_POST['gender'];
}
?>

[iNFERiON]

That would work if I didn't need the value too. I kind of need both, say like:

"You selected option 1, which is Male". Any way to do that ?

[devinemke]

<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	echo '
	<form action="" method="POST">
	<select name="gender">
	<option value="1|Male">Male</option>
	<option value="2|Female">Female</option>
	</select>
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go">
	</form>
	';
}
else
{
	$explode = explode('|', $_POST['gender']);
	echo 'you selected option #' . $explode[0] . ' ' . $explode[1];
}
?>

[iNFERiON]

Thanks, did the trick ! 🙂