Jump Menu/Database question

Question

Greetings all. I have a contact management database for
different departments. As it stand right now, I have a one page on
my site with a list of each department, and when you click on a
department it takes you to a webpage that populates with
information pertaining to the selected department. What I'm trying
to do is replace the list with a jump menu. I know how to populate
the jump menu with dynamic data, but how do I pass a URL variable?
Also, I'm wanting the site to go to the same page regardless of
which department the select. How do I tell the jump menu to go to
page x if the labels are pulled dynamically from a table? The best
example I can think of is a webpage with that caters to different
countries. REgardless of which country you select it takes you to
the same page, but the data on the page is pulled from a database
containing the language that corresponds with the selected country.
Thank you in advance for the help.

Answer 1

Moved to the Dreamweaver Application Development forum.
To display the selected option, you need to add a conditional statement to each <option> tag.
<option style="background-image:url(img/flags/icon1.gif);"
value= "main.php?city=tx"
<?php
if (isset($_GET['city'] && $_GET['city'] == 'tx') {
  echo 'selected="selected"';
?>
>Texas</option>
Do the same for each <option>, changing 'tx' to 'ut', 'ny', and 'nj' as appropriate.