Show Selected Contact

[alinford]

On the clientarea.php?action=contacts page, when I choose the contact I want to view from the dropdown, it goes to that contact, but then the dropdown field defaults back to the first contact on the list.

 

I would like the dropdown to show whatever contact I have chosen, and not default back to to the first contact.

 

Normally, I would use the "Selected" tag to choose a selected option, but I do not know how to use "Selected" as a variable, and show the current contact.

 

Any idea how I can accomplish this?

 

I am using the "Default" template on V5.

 

Here is the code I am currently using:

 

<form method="post" action="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF}?action=contacts">
<div class="alert-message block-message info">
<p>{$LANG.clientareachoosecontact}: <select name="contactid" onchange="submit()">
   {foreach item=contact from=$contacts}
       <option value="{$contact.id}">{$contact.name} - {$contact.email}</option>
   {/foreach}
   <option value="new">{$LANG.clientareanavaddcontact}</option>
   </select> <input class="btn" type="submit" value="{$LANG.go}" /></p>
</div>
</form>