Edited for clarity:
Although this question was answered by @grateful, I'll try to expand it in case it should prove useful to others...
My project contains a page, rsetup.php, that contains some php that accesses a MySQL database to populate the HTML portion of the page. The HTML creates a form with "standard" fields like radiobuttons, checkboxes and text fields.
One of the sections of the form has multiple instances of a database field that are used to create an optional "filter chain". The type of input field I'm looking to implements looks like:
[label][op][value]
Where label is the name of a filter, op is either ==, != or NULL and value is an arbitrary operand (usually a string). Ideally the input type will return all three subfields when queried.
The answer provided by @grateful below pointed me in the right direction. A few tweaks and it will do exactly what I need. If anyone else in the community needs a similar solution, this is a great starting point.
I'm sorry there are no code examples to illustrate this question but the project is internal to the company I work for and I'm pretty sure any public exposure would be frowned upon...
Thank you in advance for any help, 405nm