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    <p>I have a PHP script which connects to a MySQL database and creates an HTML dropdown list with data retrieved from it. The script works, I just don't understand how I'm supposed to use it in an HTML form.</p> <p>The PHP script, named CountryList.php, looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php function createCountryList() { $con = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass"); mysql_select_db('database', $con); $sql="SELECT Country FROM CountryList"; $result = mysql_query($sql,$con); echo "&lt;select name=country value=''&gt;Country&lt;/option&gt;"; echo "&lt;option value=0&gt;Select Country&lt;/option&gt;"; echo "&lt;option value=1&gt;&lt;/option&gt;"; $curvalue=2; while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ echo "&lt;option value=$curvalue&gt;$nt[Country]&lt;/option&gt;"; $curvalue = $curvalue+1; } echo "&lt;/select&gt;"; mysql_close($con); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I tried including the PHP file in the head of the HTML page with:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php include("CountryList.php"); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And then I tried calling the function which creates the dropdown menu in a form later on:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="insert.php" method="POST"&gt; &lt;label&gt;Which country are you from?&lt;/label&gt; &lt;?php createCountryList(); ?&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>Since nothing happens, I did it wrong. Any advice? Help is appreciated.</p> <p>EDIT: Bah, I knew it was something silly. The page was an HTML file, PHP didn't process it. Changing the HTML file to PHP solved everything.</p>
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    1. COPlease add `error_reporting(E_ALL);` on the first line of the script to get notified of any php related errors. What does the view source in the browser tell you?
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    2. CONothing seems to happen. View source shows me my HTML page exactly as I wrote it.
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