Why do ComboBox(Drop Down) values pass even with no selection or data?

[jimgym1989]

Hi there,
I have 2 PHP files, memeber.php & view.php

This is my member.php

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($strSQL)){
        $data .= "<tr>";
        $data .= "<td>";
    $data .= "<input type='checkbox' class='memberchk' name='membersID[]' value='".$row['member_id']."' />";
    $data .= "</td>";
    $data .="<td>";
    $data .= "".$row['name'];
    $data .="</td>";
 
    $data .="<td>";
    $data .= "<select name='access[]'>";
 
    $data .="<option selected value='".$row['access']."'>".$row['access']."</option>";
    if($row['access'] != 'member'){
        $data .="<option name='access[]' value='member'>member</option>";
    }
    else{
        $data .="<option name='access[]' value='admin'>admin</option>";
    }
$data .="</select>";
$data .="</td>";

I have here a database which has a table member and it has a fields name and access.
This is my view.php

$access = $_POST['access'];
echo "access size=".sizeof($access); //array size
foreach ($access as $value){
echo "Access: ".$value;
}

I'm getting the size of my access array, and it shows up a wrong size because even if I pass only one value it will show a size of 10 because 10 was the total count of values in my database. That's not what I wanted to do. The size of an array should be equal to the values that I put inside the $access, but that's not happening.
Help please.
Thanks!