How to populate HTML dropdown list with values from database

Question

as part of a HTML form I am creating I would like to have a dropdown list which will list all the usernames in my database.

I thought the following code would do the

Answer 1

Below code is nice.. It was given by somebody else named aaronbd in this forum

query("select id, name from table");

    echo "";
    echo "";
    echo "";

    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {

                  unset($id, $name);
                  $id = $row['id'];
                  $name = $row['name']; 
                  echo ''.$name.'';

}

    echo "";
    echo "";
    echo "";
?>