How to show post from category select

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This code is in my functions.php: 

array( "name" => "Headline",
"type" => "section"),
array( "type" => "open"),

array( "name" => "Headline  Categories",
"desc" => "Choose a category from which featured posts are drawn",
"id" => $shortname."_headline",
"type" => "select",
"options" => $wp_getcat,
"std" => "Select a category"),

array( "type" => "close"),

Now, how to show posts from category select on page.php or page template?

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  1. It looks like you are trying to model this on theme options code. You can’t do that. That is backend code. As written, this question is very broad– I am tempted to vote to close as “too broad”– but I will offer bare bones code to get you started:

    echo '<form method="post">';
  wp_dropdown_categories();
  echo '<input type="submit" name="catsearch" value="Submit" />';
echo '</form>';
if (isset($_GET['cat']) && ctype_digit($_GET['cat'])) {
  $qry = new WP_Query( 
    array(
      'cat' => (int)$_GET['cat'] 
    )
  );
  var_dump($qry);
}

    You will need to consult the documentation for wp_dropdown_categories and WP_Query, and will probably need to do a bit a research on HTML forms and basic PHP.

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