This seems to be a tough one, I have not found a solution elsewhere...so...here goes...
I have a form that includes a dropdown list of links that are to be populated from a mysql database. Sound simple enough?

The following code will produce:

http://www.google.ca/?member_link=ht...Fwww.google.ca
if www.google.ca is in the mysql database for $member_link

PHP Code:
 <form name="member_links" target="_blank" method="GET" onsubmit="this.action=member_link[member_link.selectedIndex].value"> 
<select name="member_link">
<?php
$SQL = "SELECT *  FROM member_links WHERE Name = '$membername' ORDER BY Link_Label ASC";
$result = mysql_query($SQL);
    while ($myrow=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    $member_link =  $myrow["Link"];
    $link_label =  $myrow["Link_Label"];
    $name =  $myrow["Name"];
?>
<option value="<?php echo ('http://'. $member_link); ?>"><?php echo $link_label; ?></option>
<?php
    }//end while
?>
</select> 
<input type="submit"  value="Go">
</form>

QUESTION IN A NUTSHELL:
How do I get rid of the:
?member_link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca
part of each link in the drop down menu?

I have tried stripping the link from the "?" on with php, which I don't think works because of the way the javascript creates the link. There are more details here:
http://www.codingforums.com/showthre...threadid=19457
and
here:
http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showt...6249#post46249

More details here: