damn php coders

while rewriting/extending some website at work, i've found following Brilliant example of why php coders suck.

code:

Deadline days:
<select name="deadline_days">
<option value="20">20 days</option>
<option value="10">10 days</option>
<option value="5">5 days</option>
<option value="48">48 hours</option>
<option value="24">24 hours</option>
<option value="12">12 hours</option>
</select>

generated by some javascript code (we have around 150K of it in this project) and those values used all over there and in php code.

i'm coding in perl, and store this field as "20d" or "24h" in DB, so i was forced to write this:

my $days = param ('deadline_days');
if ($days == 24 || $days == 12 || $days == 48) {
 $days = $days."h";
}
else {
 $days = $days."d";
}
param ('deadline_days', $days);

to avoid examining and rewriting this ton of damn crap! js code.