Get _POST from Select element in Form
Form elements need to have a name attribute. 

&lt;select name="submission" id="submission"&gt;
&lt;option value="view"&gt;View&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;

&lt;textarea name="content" rows="9" cols="80" id="content"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;


That should do the trick!