How to Create a Dynamic Drop Down List in PHP populated from MySQL Database

Question

I am trying to create a dynamic drop down list using PHP and mysql database. I have written the following code and its giving me the output, but the problem is that its show

Answer 1

Get rid of the inner foreach loop... it is doing nothing for you and move the start and end select tags outside of the while loop.

$select_query=          "Select name from category";
$select_query_run =     mysql_query($select_query);
echo "";
while ($select_query_array=   mysql_fetch_array($select_query_run) )
{
   echo "".htmlspecialchars($select_query_array["name"])."";
}
echo "";