Populate a Drop down box from a mySQL table in PHP

Question

I am trying to populate a Drop down box from results of a mySQL Query, in Php. I\'ve looked up examples online and I\'ve tried them on my webpage, but for some reason they j

Answer 1

What if you want to use both id and name in the dropdown? Here is the code for that:

$mysqli = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
$sqlSelect = "SELECT BrandID, BrandName FROM BrandMaster";
$result = $mysqli -> query ($sqlSelect);

echo "";

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
   unset($id, $name);
   $id = $row['BrandID'];
   $name = $row['BrandName']; 
   echo ''.$name.'';
 }
 echo "";