What are some common pitfalls when trying to create a dropdown menu in PHP?

One common pitfall when creating a dropdown menu in PHP is not properly populating the options in the select element. To solve this, you need to dynamically generate the options based on your data source, such as an array or database query result. 

<select name="dropdown">
<?php
// Example array of options
$options = array("Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3");

// Populate dropdown menu with options
foreach ($options as $option) {
    echo "<option value='$option'>$option</option>";
}
?>
</select>

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HTML CSS JavaScript array syntax error

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