title: Why is the first item in select menu always empty?
body: <p>Using CakePHP, I created select-option form element with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $form-&gt;select('items', $numeration , array('selected' =&gt; 0));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It creates selection box, but the first option is always empty.</p>
  
  <p>How can I get rid of that empty option? I did not manage to do anything with <code>showEmpty</code> option...</p>
  
  <p>please help....
  :-((</p>
  
  <p>UPDATED: </p>
  
  <p>cakephp code </p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $form-&gt;select('myOptions', array(1 =&gt; 'a', 2 =&gt; 'b', 3 =&gt; 'c'), array('empty'=&gt;false));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>creates next html:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="myOptions" name="data[myOptions]"&gt;
  &lt;option selected="selected" value=""&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="1"&gt;a&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="2"&gt;b&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="3"&gt;c&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what is wrong, and why do i have empty element?!</p>