Sort Drop Down List populated with MYSQL table + Add Links from same

[abhic]

Hello Guys
I am using Pligg Beta 9 and got this code to create a drop-down list from the list of stories in that table.
What I want to do now is to

Add a header to the drop down like - "Select Story"
Sort stories alphabetically
Get html links that are stored in those tables for the appropriate story and when the user selects that story, the page goes to that link

I have also included the format of the table.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Table Structure:

CREATE TABLE `pliggb9_links` (
  `link_id` int(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `link_author` int(20) NOT NULL default '0',
  `link_blog` int(20) default '0',
  `link_status` enum('discard','queued','published','abuse','duplicated') NOT NULL default 'discard',
  `link_randkey` int(20) NOT NULL default '0',
  `link_votes` int(20) NOT NULL default '0',
  `link_karma` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL default '0.00',
  `link_modified` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `link_date` timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `link_published_date` timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `link_category` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `link_lang` int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
  `link_url` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_url_title` text,
  `link_title` text NOT NULL,
  `link_title_url` varchar(255) default NULL,
  `link_content` text NOT NULL,
  `link_summary` text,
  `link_tags` text,
  `link_field1` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field2` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field3` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field4` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field5` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field6` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field7` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field8` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field9` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `link_field10` text NOT NULL,
  `link_field11` text NOT NULL,
  `link_field12` text NOT NULL,
  `link_field13` text NOT NULL,
  `link_field14` text NOT NULL,
  `link_field15` text NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`link_id`),
  KEY `link_author` (`link_author`),
  KEY `link_url` (`link_url`),
  KEY `link_date` (`link_date`),
  KEY `link_published_date` (`link_published_date`),
  FULLTEXT KEY `link_url_2` (`link_url`,`link_url_title`,`link_title`,`link_content`,`link_tags`),
  FULLTEXT KEY `link_tags` (`link_tags`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=61 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

System Table Load Code (to alphabetize and add links here?)

//this gets all the stories
    $storySql = "SELECT link_id, link_title from " . table_links . " where link_status = 'published' or link_status = 'queued';";
    $stories = $db->get_results($storySql);
    //store the id and title in an array
    $storylist = array();
    foreach ( $stories as $story )
        $storylist[] = array($story->link_id,$story->link_title);
    //pass the array to the template
    $var_smarty->assign('dropdownStories',$storylist);

Drop Down List Code (need ajax?)

<li>
    <div class="box" id="dropdownstory">
        <select>
            {foreach from=$dropdownStories value=dropdownstory}
            <option value="{$dropdownstory[0]}">{$dropdownstory[1]}</option>
            {/foreach}
        </select>
    </div>
</li>