What is the recommended approach for creating a dropdown menu in HTML that dynamically populates names from a MySQL database in PHP?

To create a dropdown menu in HTML that dynamically populates names from a MySQL database in PHP, you can use PHP to query the database for the names and then generate the HTML options dynamically. This can be achieved by using a loop to iterate over the results of the database query and echo out the option tags with the names as values. 

<?php
// Connect to MySQL database
$connection = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'database_name');

// Query to retrieve names from database
$query = "SELECT name FROM table_name";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);

// Generate dropdown menu options
echo '<select name="names">';
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    echo '<option value="' . $row['name'] . '">' . $row['name'] . '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

// Close database connection
mysqli_close($connection);
?>

Keywords

HTML dropdown menu MySQL database PHP dynamic population

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