Gnarley drop-down db problem

[Paul <pauljw@truswan.com>]

I have a user maintenance script. In the address maintenance page there 
is a drop down for the country entry. First, I retrieve the address info 
from a MySQL table. Globals are off, so I initialize the variables in 
the input with $country=$_GET['country']. In the country drop down I have

<option value="USA" <?php if ($country == 'USA') { echo "selected"; } 
?>>United States</option>

and so forth for each country. This works beautifully, except that 
changes are not saved from this and sent to the database. I have, in the 
validation script (an included script), an initialization of the 
variables as $country = $_POST['country'] for later use since it makes 
for shorter coding later in the routines.

Can anybody help with ideas about how I can capture the change to the 
drop down country entry? Or, why is the original value passed instead of 
the new one? I suspect my need to initialize with the $_GET, but I can't 
figure out how to both get the value from the query string and then send 
the changed value in the drop down.

TIA,
Paul


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