Hide key value in drop-down

Hello,

Access has the ability to hide the key value in a drop-down menu. Is there a
way in PHP to do the same thing?

Thanks,

Vic

re: Hide key value in drop-down

Vic Spainhower wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> Access has the ability to hide the key value in a drop-down menu. Is there a
> way in PHP to do the same thing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vic
>
>
>[/color]

PHP doesn't do drop down menus. HTML does.

And no, there is no way for HTML to hide the key value. The client
needs that value to return to the server.

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re: Hide key value in drop-down

That was the short answer. What do you mean by hiding exactly? If you
just want to hide the key values from the renered page, just use the
value attribute:
<option value="3">Number Three</option>
instead of
<option>3</option>

I can imagine that you want to hide your actual database IDs. In that
case, just don't send them. Compute a hash from them (or better: a
"salted" hash by including the session id) and send the hashes instead.
Store these hash values in the $_SESSION array, so you can look up the
real database IDs from the submitted hash value.

Have a nice christmas.

Jerry Stuckle wrote:[color=blue]
> Vic Spainhower wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> Access has the ability to hide the key value in a drop-down menu. Is
>> there a way in PHP to do the same thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vic
>>
>>
>>[/color]
>
> PHP doesn't do drop down menus. HTML does.
>
> And no, there is no way for HTML to hide the key value. The client
> needs that value to return to the server.
>[/color]

re: Hide key value in drop-down

Thanks Dikkie that helps and a Merry Christmas to you!

Vic

"Dikkie Dik" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:dojomh$nkr$1@news.cistron.nl...[color=blue]
> That was the short answer. What do you mean by hiding exactly? If you just
> want to hide the key values from the renered page, just use the value
> attribute:
> <option value="3">Number Three</option>
> instead of
> <option>3</option>
>
> I can imagine that you want to hide your actual database IDs. In that
> case, just don't send them. Compute a hash from them (or better: a
> "salted" hash by including the session id) and send the hashes instead.
> Store these hash values in the $_SESSION array, so you can look up the
> real database IDs from the submitted hash value.
>
> Have a nice christmas.
>
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:[color=green]
>> Vic Spainhower wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Access has the ability to hide the key value in a drop-down menu. Is
>>> there a way in PHP to do the same thing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vic
>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>> PHP doesn't do drop down menus. HTML does.
>>
>> And no, there is no way for HTML to hide the key value. The client needs
>> that value to return to the server.
>>[/color][/color]

re: Hide key value in drop-down

Thanks Dikkie that did the trick! Merry Christmas to you.

Vic

"Dikkie Dik" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:dojomh$nkr$1@news.cistron.nl...[color=blue]
> That was the short answer. What do you mean by hiding exactly? If you just
> want to hide the key values from the renered page, just use the value
> attribute:
> <option value="3">Number Three</option>
> instead of
> <option>3</option>
>
> I can imagine that you want to hide your actual database IDs. In that
> case, just don't send them. Compute a hash from them (or better: a
> "salted" hash by including the session id) and send the hashes instead.
> Store these hash values in the $_SESSION array, so you can look up the
> real database IDs from the submitted hash value.
>
> Have a nice christmas.
>
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:[color=green]
>> Vic Spainhower wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Access has the ability to hide the key value in a drop-down menu. Is
>>> there a way in PHP to do the same thing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vic
>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>> PHP doesn't do drop down menus. HTML does.
>>
>> And no, there is no way for HTML to hide the key value. The client needs
>> that value to return to the server.
>>[/color][/color]