I have a script that creates an array from a directory, then creates an option selection form. Once an option is selected, it goes to that directory.
What I would like to know is..
How is it possible to give ID's to the opions in the selection list and display it as
index.php?id=1
index.php?id=2
index.php?id=3
and so on...
Right now it is displayed as:
http://site.com/directory/selected option/
Any ideas?

    I saw this post when you first put it up and as I didn't understand it so I left it for a wiser man. I guess I wasn't the only that couldn't figure out what you need.

    You said give id's to the options. Are you talking something like so

    <select name="myselect">
     <option id="option1" value="index.php?id=1">index.php?id=1
     <option id="option2" value="index.php?id=2">index.php?id=2
     <option id="option3" value="index.php?id=3">index.php?id=3
<select>

    Not sure that there would be a purpose to doing it that way so I am guessing you are asking something else.

    But then there is that dummy link which makes me think that you currently have

    <option value="http://site.com/directory/option/">http://site.com/directory/option/

    in the place of doing it like so

    <option value="index.php?id=1">index.php?id=1

    I which case it wasn't an id that your are looking for. Of course you could be asking how to set a variable to each option. But that isn't even clear.

    We are going to need a bit more information. Maybe even a snippet of your code may help some.

      Or maybe you are trying to set a variable to the "id=1"

      if so

      $optionvar = $_GET['id'];

        Hmm..
        Let me try and make it clearer.
        This code gets the array and creates a selection for each item:

        <form action="process.php" method="post"> 
<select name="item"> 
<?php
$results = str_replace(" ", " ", $results);

foreach ($results as $key => $value)
{
echo '<OPTION value='.$value.'> '.$value.'';
}
echo '</select>';

?> 
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Git" />
</form>

        As you see the action is to go to process.php, which redirects to the option selected:

        <?php
$item = $_POST['item'];
?>
<h4>Loading....</h4>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=colors/<?php echo $item ?>" />

        Now, lets say you selected blue, and were directed to that directory
        It would show the URL as
        www.site.com/colors/blue
        I want to konw if it is possible to give this outcome:
        index.php?page=1 [selected blue...]
        index.php?page=2 [selected a different color...]

          So if the user is redirected to www.site.com/colors/blue the actual page that needs to load is index.php?page=1.

          If that is the case you need to look into mod rewrite.

            I looked into it and it gave me the option to go from dynamic url to static url, but I want to do the opposite. Thanks for the help though.

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