Can an Option in a Select tag carry multiple values?

I got a select tag with some options in a HTML form:
(the data will be collected and processed using PHP)

Testing:

<select name="Testing">  
  <option value="1"> One  
  <option value="2"> Two  
  <option value="3"> Three
</select>

Is it possible for an option to carry multiple values like when a user selects "One", then a few other values related to this option will be written to the Database.

How should I design the select Tag so that each of the options can carry one than one value like this:

<select name="Testing">  
  <option value="1" value="2010"> One  
  <option value="2" value="2122"> Two  
  <option value="3" value="0"> Three
</select>

Solution 1:

One way to do this, first one an array, 2nd an object:

    <select name="">
        <option value='{"num_sequence":[0,1,2,3]}'>Option one</option>
        <option value='{"foo":"bar","one":"two"}'>Option two</option>
    </select>

Solution 2:

I achieved it by using the PHP explode function, like this:

HTML Form (in a file I named 'doublevalue.php':

    <form name="car_form" method="post" action="doublevalue_action.php">
            <select name="car" id="car">
                    <option value="">Select Car</option>
                    <option value="BMW|Red">Red BMW</option>
                    <option value="Mercedes|Black">Black Mercedes</option>
            </select>
            <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="submit">
    </form>

PHP action (in a file I named doublevalue_action.php)

    <?php
            $result = $_POST['car'];
            $result_explode = explode('|', $result);
            echo "Model: ". $result_explode[0]."<br />";
            echo "Colour: ". $result_explode[1]."<br />";
    ?>

As you can see in the first piece of code, we're creating a standard HTML select box, with 2 options. Each option has 1 value, which has a separator (in this instance, '|') to split the values (in this case, model, and colour).

On the action page, I'm exploding the results into an array, then calling each one. As you can see, I've separated, and labelled them so you can see the effect this is causing.

Solution 3:

its possible to have multiple values in a select option as shown below.

<select id="ddlEmployee" class="form-control">
    <option value="">-- Select --</option>
    <option value="1" data-city="Washington" data-doj="20-06-2011">John</option>
    <option value="2" data-city="California" data-doj="10-05-2015">Clif</option>
    <option value="3" data-city="Delhi" data-doj="01-01-2008">Alexander</option>
</select>

you can get selected value on change event using jquery as shown below.

$("#ddlEmployee").change(function () {
     alert($(this).find(':selected').data('city'));
});

You can find more details in this LINK

Solution 4:

one option is to put multi value with comma seperated

like

value ="123,1234"

and in the server side separate them

Solution 5:

When I need to do this, I make the other values data-values and then use js to assign them to a hidden input

<select id=select>
<option value=1 data-othervalue=2 data-someothervalue=3>
//...
</select>

<input type=hidden name=otherValue id=otherValue />
<input type=hidden name=someOtherValue id=someOtherValue />

<script>
$('#select').change(function () {
var otherValue=$(this).find('option:selected').attr('data-othervalue');
var someOtherValue=$(this).find('option:selected').attr('data-someothervalue');
$('#otherValue').val(otherValue);
$('#someOtherValue').val(someOtherValue);
});
</script>