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Populate a Drop down box from a mySQL table in PHP

I’m new to PHP/mySQL, but I’m learning it. I’m just creating a simple script to learn about mySQL, retrieving data from the database etc. I’m stuck on something, I hope you guys can help me!

I want to show the data of table ‘leerlingen’ in a html form, in the ‘select’ html tag. Each value has to has its own option tag, so like this:

  <select>
    <option value="VALUE 1">VALUE 1</option>
    <option value="VALUE 2">VALUE 2</option>
    <option value="VALUE 3">VALUE 3</option>
    <option value="VALUE 4">VALUE 4</option>
  </select>

I’ve searched a lot at Google, tried many things, but nothing seems to work..

Thanks!

Jelle

Answer 1

It would appear you need to write a foreach loop to parse through each database row you have from your query. Example below (result as an multidimensional array):

<select>
<?php
    foreach($rowset as $row) {
        echo '<option value="'.$row['id'].'">'.$row['value'].'</option>';
    }
?>
</select>