How can you populate a dropdown menu in HTML with values from a database using PHP?

To populate a dropdown menu in HTML with values from a database using PHP, you can query the database for the values and then loop through the results to create the options for the dropdown menu. 

<?php
// Connect to the database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Query the database for values
$sql = "SELECT id, name FROM table";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Populate dropdown menu with values
echo '<select name="dropdown">';
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    echo '<option value="' . $row['id'] . '">' . $row['name'] . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

// Close database connection
$conn->close();
?>

Keywords

PHP HTML dropdown menu database values

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