title: html select not working
body: <p>Hi 
  I am absolutely stuck here, i'm a PHP programmer and i would consider my HTML to be excellent but for some reason i'm stuck on this:</p>
  
  <p>I have a form and it has two select options :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="pays"&gt;
   &lt;option value ="ireland"&gt;Ireland&lt;/option&gt;
   &lt;option value ="us"&gt;US&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;select name="carrier"&gt;
    &lt;option value="ireland"&gt;Irish Network&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option disabled="disabled"&gt;&lt;b&gt;US&lt;b&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="verizon"&gt;Verizon&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="sprint"&gt;Sprint&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="att"&gt;AT&amp;T&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="cellularone"&gt;Cellular One&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="nextel"&gt;Nextel&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My PHP file is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$country= $_POST['pays'];
  $carrier= $_POST['carrier'];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>....</p>
  
  <pre><code>$sql="INSERT INTO members (cname, cnumber, country, carrier)
  VALUES ('$name', '$number', '$country', '$carrier')";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The strange thing is that the values $name and $number work fine (they are input fields in the form aswell) but the two select options are empty. I've echoed out the $country and $carrier but they're blank, making me think there is a problem with the form.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas??</p>
  
  <p>P.S no errors come up</p>
  
  <p>P.P.S if you don't speak french, pays=country in french</p>
  
  <p>Thanks 
  Niall</p>