How to populate HTML dropdown list with values from database

My guess is that you have a problem since you don't close your select-tag after the loop. Could that do the trick?

<select name="owner">
<?php 
$sql = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT username FROM users");
while ($row = $sql->fetch_assoc()){
echo "<option value=\"owner1\">" . $row['username'] . "</option>";
}
?>
</select>

Below code is nice.. It was given by somebody else named aaronbd in this forum

<?php

$conn = new mysqli('localhost', 'username', 'password', 'database') 
or die ('Cannot connect to db');

    $result = $conn->query("select id, name from table");

    echo "<html>";
    echo "<body>";
    echo "<select name='id'>";

    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {

                  unset($id, $name);
                  $id = $row['id'];
                  $name = $row['name']; 
                  echo '<option value="'.$id.'">'.$name.'</option>';

}

    echo "</select>";
    echo "</body>";
    echo "</html>";
?>

I'd suggest following a few debugging steps.

First run the query directly against the DB. Confirm it is bringing results back. Even with something as simple as this you can find you've made a mistake, or the table is empty, or somesuch oddity.

If the above is ok, then try looping and echoing out the contents of $row just directly into the HTML to see what you've getting back in the mysql_query - see if it matches what you got directly in the DB.

If your data is output onto the page, then look at what's going wrong in your HTML formatting.

However, if nothing is output from $row, then figure out why the mysql_query isn't working e.g. does the user have permission to query that DB, do you have an open DB connection, can the webserver connect to the DB etc [something on these lines can often be a gotcha]

Changing your query slightly to

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users") or die(mysql_error());

may help to highlight any errors: php manual

<select name="owner">
<?php 
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
echo "<option value=\"owner1\">" . $row['username'] . "</option>";
}
?>
</select>

<?php
 $query = "select username from users";
 $res = mysqli_query($connection, $query);   
?>


<form>
  <select>
     <?php
       while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc()) 
       {
         echo '<option value=" '.$row['id'].' "> '.$row['name'].' </option>';
       }
    ?>
  </select>
</form>

How to populate HTML dropdown list with values from database

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