title: php not picking up data from <select> help?
body: <p>I'd really appreciate some help.</p>
  
  <p>I have a php/html script that displays a certain select with options based on $specqId, if the $specqId does not equal any of the specified numbers in the if/else if statement, then just display input</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php if($specqId == 5){ ?&gt;
  &lt;select id="a1" name"a1"&gt;
  &lt;option value="8.5 x 11"&gt;Letter 8.5" x 11"&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="8.5 x 14"&gt;Legal 8.5" x 14"&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="11 x 17"&gt;Tabloid 11" x 17"&lt;/option&gt;
  
      &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;?php
  }else if($specqId == 6){
  ?&gt;  
      &lt;select id="a1" name"a1"&gt;
          &lt;option value="18 x 24"&gt;18" x 24"&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="20 x 30"&gt;20" x 30"&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="30 x 40"&gt;30" x 40"&lt;/option&gt;
  
      &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;?php
  }else if($specqId == 8){
      ?&gt;
      &lt;select id="a1" name"a1"&gt;
          &lt;option value="8.5 x 11"&gt;8.5" x 11"&lt;/option&gt;
  
      &lt;/select&gt;
      &lt;?php
  }else {
  ?&gt;
  &lt;input type="text" name="a1" id="a1" value="" size="30"/&gt;
  &lt;?php }//end else ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, here is the weird thing, the php that processes this form, does not pick up anything except whats in the input tag, it does not pick up whats in the select tag...</p>
  
  <p>any thoughts?</p>