PHP - Setting A Default On A Drop Down Box

Hi. I have drop down boxes for date and time that work. The year is a problem because I am using variables instead of fixed values.

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<select name="Year" style="width:60px">
<option value="2010" >Test
<option value="<?=$ThisYear?>" <? if ($Year == "<?=$ThisYear?>"){?> SELECTED <?}?> ><?=$ThisYear?>
<option value="<?=$NextYear?>" <? if ($Year == "<?=$NextYear?>"){?> SELECTED <?}?> ><?=$NextYear?>
</select>

<select name="Hour" style="width:50px">
<option value="10" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "10"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >10
<option value="11" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "11"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >11
<option value="12" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "12"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >12
<option value="13" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "13"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >13
<option value="14" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "14"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >14
<option value="15" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "15"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >15
<option value="16" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "16"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >16
<option value="17" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "17"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >17
<option value="18" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "18"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >18
<option value="19" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "19"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >19
<option value="20" <? if ($_SESSION["Hour"] == "20"){?> SELECTED <?}?> >20
</select>

however this works

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<select name="Year" style="width:60px">
<option value="2010" >Test
<option value="<?=$ThisYear?>" <? if ($Year == "2011"){?> SELECTED <?}?> ><?=$ThisYear?>
<option value="<?=$NextYear?>" <? if ($Year == "2012"){?> SELECTED <?}?> ><?=$NextYear?>
</select>

Can anyone help with this please
TIA

Desmond.
   

Okay, so, here's my dilemma. I'm wanting to have it so someone can edit an item in the database, but it is a dropdown menu for the options to choose from.

How do I make it so that the option that the item currently is is what the default showing is?

For instance, if the item is for a "warrior", it will show warrior already in the dropdown menu. However, I could go to the dropdown menu and select a different option if I wanted. The {{class}} doesn't seem to give that default. Right now, it just defaults to "All" regardless of what the item truly goes to, such as "warrior".

Thanks in advance!!

Here's what I have for the coding:


<tr><td width="20%">Class:</td><td><select name="class" value="{{class}}">
<option value="1" {{class1select}}>All</option>
<option value="2" {{class2select}}>Alchemist</option>
<option value="3" {{class3select}}>Assassin</option> 
<option value="4" {{class4select}}>Dark Arts</option>
<option value="5" {{class5select}}>Dark Paladin</option>
<option value="6" {{class6select}}>Entertainer</option>
<option value="7" {{class7select}}>Hunter</option>
<option value="8" {{class8select}}>Mage</option>
<option value="9" {{class9select}}>Monk</option>
<option value="10" {{class10select}}>Paladin</option>
<option value="11" {{class11select}}>Pirate</option>
<option value="12" {{class12select}}>Priest</option>
<option value="13" {{class13select}}>Psion</option>
<option value="14" {{class14select}}>Scholar</option>
<option value="15" {{class15select}}>Thief</option>
<option value="16" {{class16select}}>Warlock</option>
<option value="17" {{class17select}}>Warrior</option>
</select></td></tr>

I am working on a project that uses a drop down list to chose the category when inserting new data into the database. What I want to do now is make the drop down list default to the chosen category on the list records page and the update page. I have read several tutorials, but they all say that I have to list the options and then select the default. But since it is possible to add and remove categories, this approch won't work. I need the code to chose the correct category on the fly.

There are two tables, one that has the category ID and category name.  The second table has the data and the catid which is referenced to the category id in the first table.

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--
-- Table structure for table `categories`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `categories`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `categories` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `categories` varchar(37) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=40 ;

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `links`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `links`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `links` (
  `id` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `catid` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `content` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `catid` (`catid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=35 ;


Then is the list records file, I have

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<?php
include ("db.php");
include ("menu.php");


$result = mysql_query("SELECT categories FROM categories") or die(mysql_error()); 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { 
$categories=$row["categories"];
$options.= '<option value="'.$row['categories'].'">'.$row['categories'].'</option>';
};



$id = $_GET['id'];
$query="SELECT * FROM links ORDER BY catid ASC";
$result=mysql_query($query);

?>
<table width="65%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><strong>List data from mysql </strong> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="center"><strong>Category ID</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Category ID</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>URL</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Content</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Update</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Delete</strong></td>
</tr>
<?php
while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td>
<SELECT NAME=catid>
<OPTION>Categories</OPTION>
<?php echo $options; ?>
</SELECT>
</td>
<td><? echo $rows['catid']; ?></td>
<td><? echo $rows['name']; ?></td>
<td><a href="<? echo $rows['url']; ?>"><? echo $rows['url']; ?></a></td>
<td><? echo $rows['content']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><a href="update.php?id=<? echo $rows['id']; ?>">update</a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="delete.php?id=<? echo $rows['id']; ?>">delete</a></td>

</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
mysql_close();
?>

So, how do I get this code
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$result = mysql_query("SELECT categories FROM categories") or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$categories=$row["categories"];
$options.= '<option value="'.$row['categories'].'">'.$row['categories'].'</option>';
};

<SELECT NAME=catid>
<OPTION>Categories</OPTION>
<?php echo $options; ?>
</SELECT>

to give me an output that will be

something like if catid exactly matches categories.id echo categories.categorie  ???

so far everything I have done produces either a default category of the last category,  the catid (which is a number), all of the categories (logical since catid will always be = id, or nothing.  How do I get just the category name? 

I will keep reading and try to figure this out, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

How to define default folder. For example I have folder images and in that folder specific image. In the root directory I have index.php with
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<?php require_once("public/includes/header.php"); ?>and in index.php there are links which goes to different folder:
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<a href="public/sajt/kategorija.php?id=<?php echo $id;  ?>">which also have header.php, but there is no image. How to make default folder for image, or some similar solution?