If your options are dynamically created you could check the value passed against each option are mark the match with "SELECTED"; Example Static: Echo "<option value='5'"; If(isset($_GET['cat_id']) && $_GET['cat_id'] == 5){ echo ' SELECETED ';} echo " >5</option>".PHP_EOL; Example Dynamic for($a=1, $a <= 15; $a++) { Echo "<option value='".$a."' "; If(isset($_GET['cat_id']) && $_GET['cat_id'] == $a){ echo ' SELECETED ';} echo " > ".$a."</option>".PHP_EOL; } Just a though Richard L. Buskirk -----Original Message----- From: Michael Simiyu [mailto:simiyu.michael@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:10 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Customize link Hello, Here is the scenario.... I have a form with the folloing fields i. Title ii. Category (This is a drop down with a list of categories which have id's - am using wordpress ) iii. upload file field now what i want to do is to be able to customize a link like http://www.mysite.com/addfile&cat_id=5 so that when i access the link it has one of the categories in the drop down selected......reason is i dont want users to see the different types of categories.... So i guess my question is how to configure a meu item in a drop down to be automatically selected in a link... Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php