I've got a form with a pulldown on my main page. The user chooses from the 
pulldown 
and that is passed to the secondary page. That variable is supposed to search 
the database 
and display the results.

However, the secondary page is not getting the variable. It shows in the URL, 
but it shows 
as 0 in the DB query.

Here's the form code:

<form id="bytitle" action="bytitle.php" method="get" name="bytitle" 
enctype="text/plain">
                                                                                
                        <div align="center">
                                                                                
                                <table border="0" 
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" height="31">
                                                                                
                                        <tr>
                                                                                
                                                <td align="right" 
valign="middle"><select name="var" size="1">
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="A">A</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="B">B</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="C">C</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="E">E</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="F">F</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="G">G</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="H">H</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="I">I</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="J">J</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="K">K</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="L">L</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="M">M</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="N">N</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="O">O</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="P">P</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="Q">Q</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="R">R</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="S">S</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="T">T</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="U">U</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="V">V</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="W">W</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="X">X</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="Y">Y</option>
                                                                                
                                                                <option 
value="Z">Z</option>
                                                                                
                                                        
</select></td>
                                                                                
                                                <td 
valign="middle"><input type="image" src="img/input.jpg" alt=""></td>
                                                                                
                                        </tr>
                                                                                
                                </table>
                                                                                
                        </div>
                                                                                
                </form>

Here's the code from the secondary page:



$var = floor($_GET['var']);

mysql_connect('x', 'x', 'x');

mysql_select_db('x');

$query = "SELECT *
                                FROM shows
                                ORDER BY sorttitle
                                WHERE begins = '$var'";

What's going on?!

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