Question

I have a form with one select box (pulldown list). I need to get a column from mySQL to appear in the select box. How do i make the connection? Are there any examples out there?

Answer 1

<?php
// connect to MySQL
$query = "SELECT <col> FROM <table>";
$result = mysql_query($query);
?>
<select name="sel" id="sel">
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
  echo "<option>{$row['<col>']}</option>";
}
?>
</select>

If you need to have the first option empty, just print this line after the select tag:

<option></option>