I've created a list of 4 product categories. It's working fine and passing all the values to the next page.
Code is:
echo "<tr><td>Product Category* </td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<select size=\"1\" name=\"pc\" id=\"pc\">";
echo "<option value=\"0\">Product Category</options>";
echo "<option value=\"Hair\">Hair</options>";
echo "<option value=\"Skin\">Skin</options>";
echo "<option value=\"Nail\">Nail</options>";
echo "<option value=\"Eyes\">Eyes</options>";
echo "</select></td>";
I want this list to transfer 4 more values (product category IDs) with the current values to the next page also.
echo "<tr><td>Product Category* </td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<select size=\"1\" name=\"pc\" id=\"pc\">";
echo "<option value=\"0\">Product Category</options>";
echo "<option value=\"77-Hair\">Hair</options>";
echo "<option value=\"88-Skin\">Skin</options>";
echo "<option value=\"99-Nail\">Nail</options>";
echo "<option value=\"66-Eyes\">Eyes</options>";
echo "</select></td>";
and split value for "-" on server side
In case, you don't understand Juhana
's comment, this is what he means.
echo "<td>";
echo "<select size=\"1\" name=\"pc\" id=\"pc\">";
echo "<option value=\"0\">Product Category</options>";
echo "<option value=\"77\">Hair</options>";
echo "<option value=\"88\">Skin</options>";
echo "<option value=\"99\">Nail</options>";
echo "<option value=\"66\">Eyes</options>";
echo "</select></td>";
However, if you'd like to do this via a JS / jQuery solution.
jQuery
$(function() {
$('#pc').change(function() {
var cat_id = $('option:selected', this).data(category_id);
$('#cat_id').val(cat_id);
});
});
PHP
echo "<td>";
echo "<select size=\"1\" name=\"pc\" id=\"pc\">";
echo "<option value=\"0\">Product Category</options>";
echo "<option data-category_id=\"77\" value=\"Hair\">Hair</options>";
echo "<option data-category_id=\"88\" value=\"Skin\">Skin</options>";
echo "<option data-category_id=\"99\" value=\"Nail\">Nail</options>";
echo "<option data-category_id=\"66\" value=\"Eyes\">Eyes</options>";
echo "</select></td>";
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"cat_id\" name=\"category_id\" />";
Why you don't put these id's for value?
echo "<tr><td>Product Category* </td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<select size=\"1\" name=\"pc\" id=\"pc\">";
echo "<option value=\"0\">Product Category</options>";
echo "<option value=\"77\">Hair</options>";
echo "<option value=\"88\">Skin</options>";
echo "<option value=\"99\">Nail</options>";
echo "<option value=\"66\">Eyes</options>";
echo "</select></td>";