Question

I am using the given code below to populate some values from a column of a table. It’s just getting filled blank..

Can you please find the problem with it ?

<select name="category">
    <option value="" selected>Select a category</option>
    <?php
        mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
        mysql_select_db("muskilaasaan");
        $category = "SELECT cat FROM category";
        $query_result = mysql_query($category);
        while($result = mysql_fetch_array($query_result))
        {
        ?>
            <option value = "<?php echo $result['cat']?>"/>
        <?php
        }

    ?>  
</select>

Answer 1

<select name="category">
    <option value="" selected>Select a category</option>
    <?php
        mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
        mysql_select_db("muskilaasaan");
        $category = "SELECT cat FROM category";
        $query_result = mysql_query($category);
        while($result = mysql_fetch_assoc($query_result))
        {
        ?>
            <option value = "<?php echo $result['cat']?>"><?php echo $result['cat']?></option>
        <?php
        }

    ?>  
</select>

Changed to mysql_fetch_assoc and also you didn’t put anything in the option tags, that would cause it to appear blank.