Try this: <form method="post" action="check.php"> <select name="website_string"> <option value="" selected="selected"></option>...

<form method="POST" action="chk_kw.php"> <select name="website_string"> <option selected="selected"></option> <option value="a...

It appears that in PHP you are obtaining the value of the submit button, not the select input. If you are using GET you will want to use $_GET['we...

Assuming you've fixed the syntax errors (you've closed the select box before the name attribute), you're using the same name for the select box as...

For your actual form, if you were to just post the results to your same page, it should probably work out all right. Try something like: <form acti...

Here is what I find works Set a form name Use a default select option , for example... <option value="-1" selected>Please Select</option> So that...