I am making an HTML form. I want the results to appear in the PHP script.
It appears that in PHP you are obtaining the value of the submit button, not the select input. If you are using GET you will want to use $_GET['website_string'] or POST would be $_POST['website_string'].
$_GET['website_string']
$_POST['website_string']
You will probably want the following HTML:
ABC def hij
With some PHP that looks like this: