Question

I am trying to populate a dropbox values by fetching data from mysql database using PHP.
Here is the code I am trying to use

    <?php
       $con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
      if (!$con)
       {
        die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
       }
       mysql_select_db("rumi", $con);
       $resultList = mysql_query("SELECT item FROM items");  
       while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($resultList))
       {
         echo "<option value='" . $row['item'] . "'>" . $row['item'] . "</option>";
        }
       echo "</select>";
       mysql_close($con);
     ?>

but I am encountering with following error:
Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\www\Lst\index.php on line 22
can you lease let me know why this is happening? can you also let me know how i can list the items in am HTML Unordered list?

Answer 1

Try something like this:

$query= mysqli_query($con,"
     SELECT item FROM items") or die("Could not connect: 2".mysql_error());

This will tell you what kind of SQL error you are getting.