Create a PHP Dropdown menu from a for loop?

Question

I am trying to create a drop down menu with the options of 1,2,3 and 4.

The below code is what I am using just now and the dropdown is empty.

Any idea what I

Answer 1

You basically use html without closing the php syntax.Your code should look like this:

 <select name="years">
    <?php 

    for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
     {
      ?>

     <option value="<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></option>
    <?php
        }
        ?> 
 <option name="years"> </option>   
    </select> 

        <input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Or are you trying to echo the option? In that case you forgot the echo statement:

 echo "<option value= ".$i.">".$i."</option>";