Select option menu read from database and use it's values

Answer 1

I would recommend making sure that you order the fields in the SQL Query to match the order you want them in and then use:

$query = "SELECT path, name, id FROM categories ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT  0,6";

echo "<option value='".$row[0]."'>'".$row[1]."'</option>";

Your code will then be much more reusable as a 'code snippet', all you need to do is write a new SQL Query

Answer 2

EDIT:(reduces ur code)

<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "root","") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("tnews2") or die(mysql_error());

$query = "SELECT name,id,path FROM categories ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT  0,6";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()."[".$query."]");
?>

<select name="categories">
<?php 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    echo "<option value='".$row['path']."'>'".$row['name']."'</option>";
}
?>        
</select>

Answer 3

I would prefer doing it like this using mysqli

<?php
/* Database connection settings */
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$pass = '';
$db = 'tnews2';
$mysqli = new mysqli($host,$user,$pass,$db) or die($mysqli->error);

/* Your query */
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT name,id,path FROM categories ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT  0,6";) or die($mysqli->error);
?>

Then add the elements to html like this:

<select name="categories">
    <option value="Select School">Select Shool</option>
    <?php
    while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
        echo "<option value='" . $row['path'] . "'>'" . $row['name'] . "'</option>";
    }
    ?>        
</select>