Array problems

[Big_D]

I have an online search with a drop list that allows multiple selections, then sends them as an array to a script on a different page to be used as the database search criteria. the problem is that I can't get it to read the actual selections, instead it just selects everything regardless of the array values. When I don't send it as an array it repeats the variable for each value and the recieving page only recognizes the last value sent. Is this even a good way or is there something better besides an array?
the code looks like this:
///////form code///////
<form action="recieve.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="src" value="catagorySearchResults">
<select MULTIPLE name="Catagory[]" size="3">
<option>All</option>
<option>Accounting</option>
<option>Acupuncture</option>
<option>Advertising</option>
<option>Air Filters</option>
<option>Art</option>
//////etc.///////
</select>
<br>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
////////recieve code/////////
case "catagorySearchResults":
$x = 0;
$Catagory = ($HTTP_GET_VARS['Catagory']);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT contNum, BusNam FROM ClientInfo WHERE Catagory LIKE '%".$Catagory."%' ORDER BY 'BusNam' 'a TO z'",$link) or die("error with the sql statement");

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

echo $myrow[1];
echo "<a href=AdminEdit.php?src=displayClientdet&contNum={$myrow[0]}><strong>View and Edit</strong></a>";

$x = ($x+1);
}

echo "<br><center>";
echo "TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES = ";
echo $x;
break;

[Kudose]

Shouldnt:

<form action="recieve.php" method="get">

$Catagory = ($HTTP_GET_VARS['Catagory']);

be:

<form action='recieve.php' method='post'>

$Catagory = ($_POST['Catagory']);

?

[Big_D]

I'm not completely sure of the difference between GET and POST in this case, but when I switched to $_POST it still seems to do the same thing?
What else could I be missing that would turn the array values into one variable? 😕

[Kudose]

Here is your code revised to how I would do it:

<?
<form action='$PHP_SELF' method='post'> 
<input type='hidden' name='src' value='catsearchres'> 
<select  name='cat' size='3'> 
<option>All</option> 
<option>Accounting</option> 
<option>Acupuncture</option> 
<option>Advertising</option> 
<option>Air Filters</option> 
<option>Art</option> 
//etc...
</select> 
<br> 
<input name='submit' type='submit' value='Search'> 
</form> 
//recieve
$num = 0; 
$cat = $_GET['cat'];
$src = $_GET['src'];

$result = mysql_query("SELECT contNum, BusNam FROM ClientInfo WHERE cat LIKE '%" .$cat. "%' ORDER BY 'BusNam' 'a TO z'", $link) or die(mysql_error()); 
$myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
for($num=0; $num<=$rows; $num++){ 
echo $myrow[1]; 
echo "<a href=AdminEdit.php?src=$src&cat=$cat><strong>View and Edit</strong></a>"; 
} 
echo "<br><center>"; 
$x = mysql_num_rows("SELECT * FROM table");
echo "TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES = $x"; 
break;
?>

Thats how I would do the kinda thing that your doing without knowing your DB structure.