thoward

Thanks for your help!

I've tried it out. The dropdown menu appears, but the fields are empty.

I currently have an HTML form where the options for a certain drop-down menu are hard-coded. Instead, I want to use PHP to... 1. Look up the values in a column (cities) in a MySQL table (locations) 2. Make those values the only options in the dropdown menu. Any ideas how I would do this? This is what I have so far. <label for="city">What is your destination city?</label> <select class="form-control" id="city" name="city"> <?php //connect to the database $dbc = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME); //grab the city names from the MySQL table $query = "SELECT cities FROM locations"; $res = mysqli_query($dbc, $query); while ($data = mysqli_fetch_assoc($res)) { echo '<option value="'.$data['cities'].'">'.$data['cities'].'</option>'; } //close the db connection mysqli_close($dbc); ?> </select>