Auto Populating A Drop Down Box
Basically I'm setting up a website which needs an populated drop down box made up from all fields in a specific column of a table in a mysql db....
Here's the code I've made up using various tutorials....
<?php
$user = "";
$host = ""
$password = ""
$dbName = ""
/* make connection to database */
mysql_connect($host, $user, $password) OR DIE( "Unable to connect
to database");
mysql_select_db($dbName); //did you forget this line?
$sql = "SELECT model FROM usedVehicles";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error() . "<br>$sql"); //use the or die(...) part ONLY IN DEVELOPMENT
?>
<form action="action" method="post">
<select name="option">
<?php
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<option value="" . $row['model'] . "">" . $row['model'] . "</option>
";
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>
I've left out the connection details for obvious reasons... When I upload and try to test this, jus a blank drop down appears... there are definately fields in the column as I have tried the query on phpMyAdmin.
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