title: How do i store select value into a php variable
body: <p>i have a simple drop down select menu.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="select"&gt;
  &lt;select class="select"&gt;
    &lt;option value="year 1"&gt;year 1&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="year 2"&gt;year 2&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value="year 3"&gt;year 3&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do i take the value that the user selects and store it into a php variable?</p>