Question

I’ve been consulting stack overflow for quite some time now.
I’m developing a system for article management and I encountered a problem.

How do I echo a field values to a dropdown select from a database table?

I have managed to echo it using this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT catName FROM tblCat");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    echo "$row['catName']";
    echo "`<br />`";
}

But when I edited the code to this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT catName FROM tblCat");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    echo "`<select>`";
    echo "`<option value='{$row['catName']}'>`";
    echo "`</select>`";
}

I got no result.

Answer 1

echo "<select>";

$result = mysql_query("SELECT catName FROM tblCat");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    echo "<option value='{$row['catName']}'>{$row['catName']}</option>";

echo "</select>";