What is the role of PHP in creating drop-down menus that open links upon selection?

To create drop-down menus that open links upon selection using PHP, you can use HTML <select> element to create the drop-down menu and then use PHP to dynamically generate the options and link URLs. You can use an associative array in PHP to store the options and their corresponding URLs, then loop through the array to populate the drop-down menu.

&lt;select onchange=&quot;window.location=this.value&quot;&gt;
&lt;?php
$options = array(
    &quot;Option 1&quot; =&gt; &quot;link1.html&quot;,
    &quot;Option 2&quot; =&gt; &quot;link2.html&quot;,
    &quot;Option 3&quot; =&gt; &quot;link3.html&quot;
);

foreach($options as $option =&gt; $url) {
    echo &quot;&lt;option value=&#039;$url&#039;&gt;$option&lt;/option&gt;&quot;;
}
?&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;