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

I editied the last entry to this and it works perfectly. The only hassle I have now is once the user has submitted the form the dropdown goes blank... Does anyone know a simple solution

echo '';
                while( $option = mysql_fetch_array($course_results)) {
echo "".htmlspecialchars($option['cname'])."";
}
echo "";