I got a select tag with some options in a HTML form:
(the data will be collected and processed using PHP)
Testing:
Instead of storing the options on the client-side, another way to do this is to store the options as sub-array elements of an associative/indexed array on the server-side. The values of the select tag would then just contain the keys used to dereference the sub-array.
Here is some example code. This is written in PHP since the OP mentioned PHP, but it can be adapted to whatever server-side language you are using:
PHP:
array('value1' => '1', 'value2' => '2010'),
2 => array('value1' => '2', 'value2' => '2122'),
3 => array('value1' => '3', 'value2' => '0'),
);
echo 'Selected option value 1: ' . $options[$_POST['Testing']]['value1'] . '
';
echo 'Selected option value 2: ' . $options[$_POST['Testing']]['value2'] . '
';