Dropdown menu loaded with database items

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I'm currently working on a page that loads items from my database into a dropdown (option) menu.

My code:

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<html>
<?php

$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","mysql");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
  echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
mysqli_select_db($con,"mysql");

$query = "SELECT * FROM artikel";
$rs1 = mysql_fetch_array($con,$query);
?>

            <select>
            <option>Selecteer een artikel:</option>
            <?php

            foreach ($rs1 as $row) {
              echo '<option value=\"{$row['Omschrijving']}\">{$row['Omschrijving']}</option>';
            }
            ?>
            </select>

</html>

Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'Omschrijving' (T_STRING), expecting ',' or ';' in D:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\Week 5\opgave 1.9.1.php on line 20

Anyone any idea what's wrong with my echo?

Posted 9-Oct-14 0:09am

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Gigabyte Giant · Answer 1 · 2014-10-09T09:45:00

The reason you're getting the error, is because you are not building your echo statement correctly.

Instead of doing...

PHP

echo '<option value=\"{$row['Omschrijving']}\">{$row['Omschrijving']}</option>';

You should do:

PHP

echo '<option value="{' . $row['Omschrijving'] . '}">{' . $row['Omschrijving'] . '}</option>';

The server will then parse the echo statement to html like follows:

HTML

<option value="{whatever value}">{whatever value}</option>

Hope that helps!