Select input is empty - php

Question

People can select their graduation year from a selection input. I email their selection to myself. However, based on the fact that nothing is printing to the console, the $_POST["year"] must be empty, which is why no year is actually being sent to me as shown in the pic below. How do I fix this?
<div class = "mailInput"> Year:
<div class = "select" name = "year"><select>
<option value="2017">2017</option>
<option value="2018">2018</option>
<option value="2019">2019</option>
<option value="2020">2020</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
// Assign year input to year variable
if (!empty($_POST["year"])) {
$year = $_POST["year"];
echo("<script>console.log('Year after: ".$year."');</script>");
}

Answer 1

You have written wrong html code,
<div class="mailInput"> Year:
<div ><select class="select" name="year"> // this line
<option value="2017">2017</option>
<option value="2018">2018</option>
<option value="2019">2019</option>
<option value="2020">2020</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
You have given name to div element which was parent of select,
now above I gave name to select element.
Give it a try. It will work.

Answer 2

<div class = "mailInput"> Year:
<div class = "select" >
//give name for select tag not for div
//
<select name = "year">
<option value="2017">2017</option>
<option value="2018">2018</option>
<option value="2019">2019</option>
<option value="2020">2020</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
// Assign year input to year variable
if (!empty($_POST["year"])) {
$year = $_POST["year"];
echo("<script>console.log('Year after: ".$year."');</script>");
}