help with drop down menu validation

[ladieballer2004]

Is there a way to validate a word drop dowm menu.

I one that has the following options.  SELECT- Freshman- Sophomore-Junior-Senior.

 

THe default one showing is SELECT and I want my form to tell the user if she forgot to make a selection here is my code

 

if($Class=='SELECT')
{echo'<b>You forgot to enter your Class &nbsp &nbsp Press the Back Button <br/>';$dataOK = FALSE;}

[mikesta707]

What happens when you run the script? try posting more code, because assuming that $Class is set to the correct post variable, that should work

[ladieballer2004]

the selection inserts into my DB but if the user leaves the option at SELECT inside my database I see SELECT

I want to make sure that the user selects an option (Freshman, Sophomore, Junrior- Senior) "SELECT" Is just considered a placeholder to me. So the parser needs to tell the user to select an option if it reads that word. How do I write the code for this?

[mikesta707]

ok well then after that if statement stop the script