how to show value of select dropdown?

[cybershot]

I haven’t used select boxes much. I am using one in a new theme I am making. I have the dropdown and values working. The problem I have now is that the dropdown allows you to select a category that you want to display on a page in WordPress. When I choose my category and save the page, the first category in the list displays. I want the dropdown list to show the selected category.

[TheDoc]

Are you ending up on a category page? If so, that’s be quite easy:

<?php if( is_cat('Fun') { echo 'selected'; } ?>

If you’re actually using POST on a form you could do something like this:

<?php if( $form["category"] == 'cat-name' ) { echo 'selected'; } ?>

[TheDoc]

Of course, you’re probably not writing these out manually, so you could do something like this:

$categories=get_categories($cat_args);

foreach($categories as $category) {
    echo "<option name.... yadda yadda
}

[cybershot]

I am using the select in a page builder in the admin section of WordPress. It is being used to get the category to generate a shortcode that will call a custom loop to query that category

        <option value="" default selected>Select your category</option>
        <option value="discography">Discography Page</option>
            <option value="contact">Contact Page</option>
            <option value="images">Images Page</option>
            <option value="news">News Page</option>
            <option value="shows">Shows Page</option>
            <option value="band">Band Page</option>
            <option value="videos">Videos Page</option>

The select box is inside a WordPress widget code. I was looking for something like the textbox has. Some way of showing the selected value.

[cybershot]

I just figured it out.

<option value="contact" <?php if($instance['cats'] == 'contact'){ echo 'selected'; } ?>>Contact Page</option>

[TheDoc]

Nice one! Hopefully what I provided helped!

[cybershot]

Yes, it helped. Thanks

[Author]

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