<?php
// these are the drop down choices from the admin

// I used POST here, change to GET if thats what your form uses
if (isset($_POST['racerName'])) {
	$racerName = $_POST['racerName'];

if (isset($_POST['positionOne'])) {
	$positionOne = $_POST['positionOne'];

if (isset($_POST['positionTwo'])) {
	$positionTwo = $_POST['positionTwo'];

// function to get points from position
function position_to_points($position)
{
        // if admin chose position 1, then give the full 25 points
	if($position == 1){
		return 25;
	}
        // else, if its not position 1, then subtract the appropriate amount of
        // points from the full amount(25) - (using the position number as the
        // number to subtract by was intuitive by vettels

	else{
		return 25 - $position;
	}
}

// using the position_to_points function, add the 2 scores and
// store the result to $totalScore

$totalScore = position_to_points($positionOne) + position_to_points($positionTwo) ;

// now insert that total score into the database for that user
// if your column names were "username" and "score".....

// setup the insert statement

$sql = "INSERT INTO myTable (username, score) values ('".$racerName."', '".$totalScore."')";

//connect to database
$servername = "myServer";
$username = "myUserName";
$password = "myPassword";

$db = mysql_connect($servername,$username,$password) or die("Unable to connect to server");
@mysql_select_db($database) or die("Unable to select database");

// run the query
$result = mysql_query($sql);
?>