Drop down form list with MySQL [duplicate] - php

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so I want to make a drop down list in my form but rather than manually writing the options in the form I want to link it to my database.
HTML
<form>
<select name="fruit">
<option value="apple">Apples</option>
<option value="banana">Bananas</option>
<option value="pear">Pears</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
This is what I have so far but I want to exclude the option values and replace them with existing records in my database. How do I do this in PHP?
I know I will be using something like, but I'm not sure
$results = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM fruit');
foreach ($results as $row)
Thanks for the help :)

Answer 1

Assuming that your fruit table has name field:
<form>
<select name="fruit">
<?php
$results = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM fruit');
foreach ($results as $row):
?>
<option value="<?php $row['name']?>"><?php ucfirst($row['name']) . "s"; ?></option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Answer 2

<form>
<select name="fruit">
<?php
$conn = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database", 'username', 'password', array( PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8"));
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$results = $conn->query("SELECT * FROM fruit");
while($row = $results->fetch( PDO::FETCH_ASSOC )){
?>
<option value="<?= $row['id'] ?>"><?= $row['fruitname'] ?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
This should give you a basic idea of how to do this.

Answer 3

In your case this is the solution:
<form>
<select name="fruits" class="form-control">
<?php
$results = $pdo->query('SELECT * FROM fruit');
foreach ($results as $row)
{
?><option value="<?= $row['id'] ?>"><?= $row['fruitname'] ?></option><?php
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>