> What I want to do is have a drop-down menu where the options are files

This is matter of HTML or JavaScript

> located in a folder on the server that changes as items are added to or
> removed. Then the user can select an item from the menu, submit, and that
> page will load.

This is script for writing all files located in a folder:

$folder = "c:/borland/";
$dir = opendir($folder);
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
 echo $file."<br>";
}

> Did that make sense?
> So I have 1.htm and 2.htm and 3.htm in a folder. A selectable menu reads
the
> folder and lists those three files as options. The user can click on it
and
> submit and that page will load. And if I add 4.htm, the menu will add that
> to the drop down on its own.
>
> That that's not possible, how close can I get to something like that?
> An example of something close to that I found on www.megatokyo.com . They
> have a dropdown menu where a user selects an item and gets sent to that
> page. A URL from one attempts shows as
> http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?date=2001-09-04 . How is that done?
>
> Again, if I could just be pointed to the related PHP concepts I'll take it
> from there.

Try to start here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Lubo


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