Populate more than one drop down using the same mysql query

Question

I have form with a number of drop boxes which have the numbers 1-5 in them. I can use this code to populate a drop down but was wondering if I can somehow only make the call to

Answer 1

Simply get the results into an array using the fetch_all method. It returns all rows from the result set into an associative or numeric array. The you can do whatever you want with such array:

$result = $conn->query('SELECT * FROM riskNumDrop');
if (!$result) {
   echo "query failed: (" . $mysqli->errno . ") " . $mysqli->error;
   exit; // fetch_* functions cannot be called on error (sice $result is false)
}

// get all rows from the result
$rows = $result->fetch_all(MYSQLI_ASSOC);

// output first dropdown...
echo '';
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    // options for the first dropdown (same as you did before)
}
echo '';

// output second dropdown...
echo '';
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    // options for the second dropdown
}
echo '';