Populate a Drop down box from a mySQL table in PHP

Question

I am trying to populate a Drop down box from results of a mySQL Query, in Php. I\'ve looked up examples online and I\'ve tried them on my webpage, but for some reason they j

Answer 1

After a while of research and disappointments....I was able to make this up

     <?php $conn = new mysqli('hostname', 'username', 'password','dbname') or die ('Cannot connect to db') $result = $conn->query("select * from table");?>

//insert the below code in the body


    <table id="myTable"> <tr class="header"> <th style="width:20%;">Name</th>
    <th style="width:20%;">Email</th>
       <th style="width:10%;">City/ Region</th>
        <th style="width:30%;">Details</th>
  </tr>
  <?php
   while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {

               echo "<tr>";
               echo "<td>".$row['username']."</td>";
               echo "<td>".$row['city']."</td>";
                echo "<td>".$row['details']."</td>";
               echo "</tr>";
           }

     ?>
</table>

Trust me it works :)