err, let me get this straight, you kind of confused me...

are you looking for a swticher?

PHP: switch - Manual

or your looking to properly loop out each category as a link?

i think i see where you are heading with this script.... Your checking to see if there are any news items in the database, and if there are you want to output a link for each item.

or are you trying to see if the requested $_GET['cat'] is i n the database, and if so, output a link to it?

or are you trying to set up a switcher, that pulls all news items from requested category?

i'm sorry you need to be a little more specific.

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