Print as menu (Mysql)

[lord22]

Hi,
I have a simple databse with few columns, 2 of them are: "id" and "name"

I want to print the database values as a menu:
<select>
<option value="the id value">the name value</option>
<option value="the id value">the name value</option>
etc.
</select>

How can I do it?

Thanks!

[boogyman]

assuming you have a server-side language and your host supports it, you can do a loop through the results and dynamically create the dropdown select list... I will demonstrate in PHP

$link = mysqli_connect(host,username,password,database);

if($query = mysqli_query('SELECT fields FROM table WHERE condition', $link))
{
    while($rs = mysqli_fetch_array($query))
    {
        echo '<option value="'.$rs["ID"].'">'.$rs["VALUE"].'</option>';
    }
}

where the blue values correspond to your specific information...

Also something to note is that its generally advised to separate the code from the output, so if you have some type of templating system, that would be best.

[lord22]

Thank you very much!!
I'm just new in SQL and it wrote me some error, which I don't understand:

I wrote this:

 if($query = mysqli_query('SELECT * FROM `my_categories`', $link)) 

And what it wrote was:

Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, string given 

[allahverdi]

boogyman, I have never seen mysqli. What is it? Or it must be mysql?

[motormichael12]

MySQL Lite

[boogyman]

Thank you very much!!
I'm just new in SQL and it wrote me some error, which I don't understand:

I wrote this:

 if($query = mysqli_query('SELECT * FROM `my_categories`', $link)) 

And what it wrote was:

Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, string given 

sorry I havent use the actual function in a while, I switched the order, should be

if($query = mysqli_query($link,'SELECT * FROM `my_categories`', )) 

boogyman, I have never seen mysqli. What is it? Or it must be mysql?

MySQLi stands for mysql improved. Basically its a newer version of mysql

see http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Converting_to_MySQLi or http://www.johnjawed.com/benchmarks/ for more information

[lord22]

Thank You Very Much!!