receiving multiple options from a Select menu

Hello,

I am unsure how to do something.
I have a select menu on a form, (named "state") and it has the "MULTIPLE" attribute assigned.

My problem is that when I submit the form to my PHP script, the $state variable only has the value for one of the the states selected. I was expecting $state to be an array, but its not.

How do you receive all of the options selected?

Thanks for your help.

Give the select the name "state[]"

That will give you an array.