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    copied!<p>I am populating a select menu with getJSON. I am wondering if there's a way that I can use jQuery's .each function to bring in these values?</p> <p>Surely there must be an easier way to accomplish this...maybe?</p> <p>PHP file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $queryMonth = "SELECT monthID, month FROM months"; $result = $db-&gt;query($queryMonth); while($rowMonth = $db-&gt;fetch_assoc($result)) : $data[] = $rowMonth; endwhile; echo json_encode($data); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The jQuery:</p> <pre><code> $.getJSON('selectMenus.php', function(data){ $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[0].monthID + "&gt;" + data[0].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[1].monthID + "&gt;" + data[1].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[2].monthID + "&gt;" + data[2].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[3].monthID + "&gt;" + data[3].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[4].monthID + "&gt;" + data[4].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[5].monthID + "&gt;" + data[5].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[6].monthID + "&gt;" + data[6].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[7].monthID + "&gt;" + data[7].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[8].monthID + "&gt;" + data[8].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[9].monthID + "&gt;" + data[9].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[10].monthID + "&gt;" + data[10].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); $("select.month").append("&lt;option value=" + data[11].monthID + "&gt;" + data[11].month + "&lt;/option&gt;"); }); </code></pre> <p>my json output looks like this:</p> <pre><code>[{"monthID":"1","month":"January"},{"monthID":"2","month":"February"},{"monthID":"3","month":"March"},{"monthID":"4","month":"April"},{"monthID":"5","month":"May"},{"monthID":"6","month":"June"},{"monthID":"7","month":"July"},{"monthID":"8","month":"August"},{"monthID":"9","month":"Septemeber"},{"monthID":"10","month":"October"},{"monthID":"11","month":"November"},{"monthID":"12","month":"December"}] </code></pre>
 

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