creating drop down menu

Hi all,

I want to create a drop down menu which shows a list of titles of articles and links to the detail page for each article.

My table is called history and it contains a field called "title" (which contains the title of the article.) I have created a list field called titles which auto populates from the title field of each record so as to provide a drop down list of all article titles.

I have uploaded a screen dump showing my settings for the list field "titles"

I have the following code in place however when I load the page in a browser and select a title from the drop down list and press the show page button nothing happens.

 Any help to ascertain why it isnt working and a potential fix would be appreciated. I have obviously missed some important element but dont know what.

My guess is that I somehow need to turn the titles created in the drop down box to hyperlinks incorporating the <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?> element but am not sure how to do this

By the way I am not a programmer so explanations using words of one syllable would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

<form method="post" action="history_detail.php">


       <h3>History Menu</h3>

       <select name="titles">
        <?php foreach (getListOptions('history', 'titles') as $value => $label): ?>

<option value = "<?php echo $value;?>" <?php selectedIf($value, @$_REQUEST['titles']);?>>

<?php echo $label; ?></option>

<?php endforeach ?>



         </select>
<br/>


        <div align="center">
          <input type="submit" name="search" value="  Show Page  "/>
        </div>



</form>