Foreach php function inside HTML select options

Question

Im a newbie to this forum and have just started coding in php. Need some help. I have the following code

Answer 1

And now let's go to ideal world :)

Build data pairs database_id => name for options:

$q = "SELECT pty.id, pty.pty_profile_name AS profile FROM pty, users 
      WHERE users.username = 'testaccount'";
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);

$values = array();
while($r = mysqli_fetch_row($r)) {
    $values[$r[0]] = $r[1];
}

Never use @ when working with database, why do you want to suppress errors instead of preventing/handling them?

Now you have real database IDs and respective values (in general, using unique IDs are better... if nothing else they have greater entropy - more efficient search). And sice displaying select box is really common in webs, lets:

function selectbox( $values = array(), $attributes = array(), $selected_value = null)
{
    // Header
    echo ' $val){
        echo ' ' . htmlspecialchars($key) . '="' . htmlspecialchars( $val) . '"';
    }
    echo '>';

    // Values
    foreach( $values as $key => $val){
        echo '' . htmlspecialchars( $val) . '';
    }
    echo '';
}

And now usage :)

Select Property  
     'pty_select')); ?>
    

And what to do with it then?

$id = (int)(isset( $_POST['pty_select']) ? $_POST['pty_select'] : 0);
$name = null;
if( $id && isset( $values[$id])){
    $name = $values[$id];
}