Question

I am trying to populate a selection box (dropdown) from a mysql table in php, but I get blank results, Can someone look in my code and tell me what is wrong?

I need to populate the select with the dates available from my sql query, so they show up as seletion options….

<?php

echo JText::_('Please select the date:');

$database= &JFactory::getDBO();
$database->setQuery('SELECT training_id,training,trainingDate FROM training');
$result = $database->loadObjectList();

echo '<select name="whatever">';
foreach ($result as $row) {
   echo '<option value="'.$row->training_id.'" />';

}
echo '</select>';

?>

Answer 1

echo '<option value="'.$row->training_id.'">'.$row->trainingDate.'</option>';

If that doesn’t work then your $row->training_id isn’t set and so you’ll need to debug that (e.g. doing a print_r($row) just before that line to see what is inside the $row object)