[thelist] Send hidden data from a form

[Anthony Baratta]

How are you constructing your Option Tags?

It should be as simple as:

[option value="123"] Red Sox [/option]

Or am I missing something?

-----Original message-----
From: "Santilal Parbhu" santilal at scorpioneng.co.nz
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:06:58 -0800
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Send hidden data from a form

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to overcome a problem where the data received from an HTML form
> menu is being truncated when a space is seen.  For example, if the option
> value of Red Sox is sent, it is truncated to Red.
> 
>  
> 
> I have not been able to find an answer to this for over a year now.  I
> thought that another way to tackle this would be to send a hidden code with
> each option value: for example; Red Sox, Code = 123, Blue Sox, Code  = 124
> etc.  Then, the receiving script could simply look for the returned codes.
> Is there a way of embedding codes to option values when the form is
> displayed.  Receiving the code would be straight forward.  I know you can
> send a hidden value associated with an "input" value, but can you associate
> it with a "select/option" value?
> 
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> 
> I am using PHP4.
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> Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Santilal Parbhu
> 
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