Selected OPTION in drop-down menu

[zzz]

I have an extensive drop-down menu. How would I select correct option when a member comes to the page (the option is already saved in member's profile)?

I can not just echo the option because the option code is abbreviated code but the user actually sees full name.

[elementaluk]

a load of IFs to check for whatever your talking about and add "selected" to the option you want...

probably could just loop whatever goes in the drop-down list, then you'd only have to write 1 IF ELSE e.g.

$drops = array("uk","us","fu","bs","hi");
foreach($drops as $drop)
{
if($drop == "uk")
{
print("selected option");
}
else{
print("...another option");
}
}
something like that but with effort...

[Rodders]

The HTML to do this would look like this:

<OPTION VALUE='optionX' SELECTED>optionx</OPTION>

In the past I have achieved this by writing a PHP function which receives the option value and the member ID. The function then looks up that member ID and finds the option in their profile...if it matches then

echo "SELECTED";

else........

echo "";

If you need help with the function code, just ask......

[zzz]

I would prefer using a function rather then "if" conditions in each option line, there are nearly a hundred.