Using PHP to populate a <select></select>?

Question

I want to populate the above tag with values from database.

I have written php code up to t

Answer 1

What about something like this :

echo '';
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    echo '' 
        . htmlspecialchars($row['column_for_label']) 
        . '';
}
echo '';

Of course, up to you to decide which items from $row should be used for the value and the text of each

Just make sure you are escaping the data that comes from your DB -- especially if it can contain HTML ; as you are outputting HTML, this can be done with htmlspecialchars or htmlentities.

Note that those might take a couple of additionnal parameters that I didn't use in my example -- setting those can be useful, depending on the charset you're using.