How to make <option selected="selected"> set by MySql and PHP?

My code:

echo '<select>';
$tempholder = array();
$rs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM id ORDER BY year");
$nr = mysql_num_rows($rs);
for ($i=0; $i<$nr; $i++){
    //if($year=$r["year"]){ $selected=' selected="selected"'; }//doesn't work so
    $r = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
    if (!in_array($r['year'], $tempholder)){
        $tempholder[$i] = $r['year'];
        echo "<option>".$r["year"]."</option>";//<option$selected>...
    }
}
unset($tempholder);
echo '</select>';