title: PHP Array to Create State Dropdown List - Need to set specific state to default
body: <p>I have a plugin that I am using that creates a dropdown of the US states using an array and then a loop to populate a select box.
  Here is the array</p>
  
  <pre><code>//Define the US State Array to be used to generate the STATE select box
    $usStates = array(
      "AL" =&gt; "Alabama",
      "AK" =&gt; "Alaska",
      "AZ" =&gt; "Arizona",
      "AR" =&gt; "Arkansas",
      "CA" =&gt; "California",
      "CO" =&gt; "Colorado",
      "CT" =&gt; "Connecticut",
      "DE" =&gt; "Delaware",
      "FL" =&gt; "Florida",
      "GA" =&gt; "Georgia",
      "HI" =&gt; "Hawaii",
      "ID" =&gt; "Idaho",
      "IL" =&gt; "Illinois",
      "IN" =&gt; "Indiana",
      "IA" =&gt; "Iowa",
      "KS" =&gt; "Kansas",
      "KY" =&gt; "Kentucky",
      "LA" =&gt; "Louisiana",
      "ME" =&gt; "Maine",
      "MD" =&gt; "Maryland",
      "MA" =&gt; "Massachusetts",
      "MI" =&gt; "Michigan",
      "MN" =&gt; "Minnesota",
      "MS" =&gt; "Mississippi",
      "MO" =&gt; "Missouri",
      "MT" =&gt; "Montana",
      "NE" =&gt; "Nebraska",
      "NV" =&gt; "Nevada",
      "NH" =&gt; "New Hampshire",
      "NJ" =&gt; "New Jersey",
      "NM" =&gt; "New Mexico",
      "NY" =&gt; "New York",
      "NC" =&gt; "North Carolina",
      "ND" =&gt; "North Dakota",
      "OH" =&gt; "Ohio",
      "OK" =&gt; "Oklahoma",
      "OR" =&gt; "Oregon",
      "PA" =&gt; "Pennsylvania",
      "RI" =&gt; "Rhode Island",
      "SC" =&gt; "South Carolina",
      "SD" =&gt; "South Dakota",
      "TN" =&gt; "Tennessee",
      "TX" =&gt; "Texas",
      "UT" =&gt; "Utah",
      "VT" =&gt; "Vermont",
      "VA" =&gt; "Virginia",
      "WA" =&gt; "Washington",
      "WV" =&gt; "West Virginia",
      "WI" =&gt; "Wisconsin",
      "WY" =&gt; "Wyoming"
      );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the loop...</p>
  
  <pre><code>//Loop through the state array to build the state select box
     foreach( $usStates as $key =&gt; $value ) {
      $selected = "";
      if($_POST['orderState'] == $key) $selected = "selected";
      $wpgft_post_content .= '&lt;option value="'.$key.'" ' . $selected . '&gt;'. $value .'&lt;/option&gt;';
      }
      $wpgft_post_content .='&lt;/select&gt;';
      if($error_state) $wpgft_post_content .='&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="wpgft_error"&gt;'.$error_state.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;';
     } else {
      $wpgft_post_content .='&lt;dt&gt;State / Province / Region:&lt;/dt&gt;';
      $wpgft_post_content .= '&lt;select name="orderState"'.$ro.'&gt;';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I need to set Colorado as the default state, where/how do I do this?</p>