Category Tree as a Select / Dropdown box

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I need to set up a category module to work similar to Manufacturers Block module (drop down list that redirects to the pages)

I duplicated blockcategories and created a new module name: blockcategoriesdrop

and added the below to the tpl file

<form action="{$smarty.server.SCRIPT_NAME}" method="get">



{l s='Categories' mod='blockcategoriesdrop'}
               {foreach item=category from=$categories}
{$category.name|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}
               {/foreach}


       </form> 

It almost works, except the categoryLink isn't formed properly and is going to a "page cannot be found"

http://domain.com/prestacart/modules/blockcategoriesdrop/category

it should go to
http://domain.com/prestacart/en/category

(needs to work with language switcher)

Any advise / help would be hugely appreciated.