Codeigniter form_helper getting database rows to be values in select menu

Question

I am writing a form, which has a select menu in it, I want the values to pulled from the database, so I thought it would be something along these lines:

My view

Answer 1

I have edited Phil Surgeon's array helper to work with a simple db query with only two fields (id & value). So the helper class now looks like this:

And you can use it again in your controller.
Hope it's usefull.