Two arrays in foreach loop

Question

I want to generate a selectbox using two arrays, one containing the country codes and another containing the country names.

This is an example:

Answer 1

Why not just consolidate into a multi-dimensional associative array? Seems like you are going about this wrong:

$codes = array('tn','us','fr');
$names = array('Tunisia','United States','France');

becomes:

$dropdown = array('tn' => 'Tunisia', 'us' => 'United States', 'fr' => 'France');