PHP: HTML: send HTML select option attribute in POST

Question

I want to send the selected item value along with the some attribute (stud_name) value. Is there any functionality in PHP to do so? Here is the example one.

<form name='add'>
Age: <select name='age'>
     <option value='1' stud_name='sre'>23</option>
     <option value='2' stud_name='sam'>24</option>
     <option value='5' stud_name='john'>25</option>
     </select>
<input type='submit' name='submit'/>
</form>

Thanks

Answer 1

<form name="add" method="post">
     <p>Age:</p>
     <select name="age">
        <option value="1_sre">23</option>
        <option value="2_sam">24</option>
        <option value='"5_john">25</option>
     </select>
     <input type="submit" name="submit"/>
</form>

You will have the selected value in $_POST['age'], e.g. 1_sre. Then you will be able to split the value and get the 'stud_name'.

$stud = explode("_",$_POST['age']);
$stud_id = $stud[0];
$stud_name = $stud[1];