List Menu Selected

[NZ_Kiwis]

I have a list box with many items in it. I want to make one selected at run time without having to do a code which has me re-writing something like this each time I add a new item to the menu

If ($Fruit == "Apple") {
echo "Selected";
} elseif ($Fruit == "Pear") {
.....

Is there another way of doing this?

[dagon]

a little something i use:

$s=array('a'=>'apple','p'=>'pear','f'=>'fish');

		function create_select($fields,$name,$selected= ''){
$field= '<select name="'.$name.'">';
foreach($fields as $key=>$val){
	$field.= '<option value="' . $key . '"';
	if($key == $selected)
		$field.= ' selected="selected" ';
	$field.= ' >' . $val . '</option>';
}
$field.= '</select>';
return $field;
}

echo create_select($s,'fruit','f');