is your form using POST or GET? Maybe the variable isn't being encoded properly.
It looks like this:
"input" => array(
"var1" => array("var1","post","alpha"),
Where var1 is the variable name that gets past via the form input. If the selection on the form is, for example, "Michael Jordan" then that gets passed in the var1 variable, but when it gets to the script file, (.inc.php) it looses the space and becomes "MichaelJordan"
