select items from mysql - php

Question

making a simple movie review site to practice PHP. on one page ( a form) i write a title and review and submit, it then adds the info to mysql. i'm trying to create a page where i can delete reviews i've written. i'm going about this by returning all titles into a form tag, where i can select on and then submit that form to a process page and delete the item.
having issues with the WHILE statement and SQL statement.
$conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password)
or die("couldn't make connection");
mysql_select_db('cms', $conn)
or die("couldn't select database");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM frontPage";
$sql_result = mysql_query($sql, $conn)
or die("couldn't execute query");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
$movieTitle = $row['title'];
}
?>
<form method="post" action="deleteReview_process.php">
<select name="title">
<option><?php echo $movieTitle; ?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="delete" id="delete" value="delete" />
</form>

Answer 1

Try this, the fixes include closing your option tag, and including the option tag inside the MySQL loop so the option tag gets outputted each time there is a new item.
<?
$conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password)
or die("couldn't make connection");
mysql_select_db('cms', $conn)
or die("couldn't select database");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM frontPage";
$sql_result = mysql_query($sql, $conn)
or die("couldn't execute query");
?>
<form method="post" action="deleteReview_process.php">
<select name="title">
<?
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
$movieTitle = $row['title'];
?>
<option><?php echo $movieTitle; ?></option>
<?
}
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="delete" id="delete" value="delete" />
</form>

Answer 2

Well for one thing, you're overwriting $movieTitle each time your loop repeats...don't you want to display all movie titles in your select list?

Answer 3

If you want to display all the movie titles, you need to read the results in and store them all. Currently you are overwriting $movieTitle every time you pull a record from your result. Try something like this:
$titles = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
$titles[] = $row['title'];
}
//...
<select name="title">
<option><?php echo implode("</option>\n<option>",$titles); ?></option>
</select>