I Pull info from a database (SQL). And I use this to create cells for each row of data.
while (@row = $sth->fetchrow()){
    
    ## Make our HTML look better if no data.
    $oid = " " if($oid eq "");
    $date = " " if($date eq "");
    $username = " " if($username eq "");
    

   print <<HTML;
    <TR BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
     
     <TD><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL>$row[0]</FONT></TD>
     <TD><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL>$row[1]</FONT></TD>
     <TD><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL><B>$row[2]</B></FONT></TD>
     <TD><FONT SIZE=1 FACE=ARIAL>
      [<A HREF="out_form.cgi?$row[0]">Clock Out</A>]
     </FONT></TD>

          
   </TR>
HTML
  } # End of while.

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What i want to do is replace this with a Form. Input that row into a dropdown <select><option> where each <option> is the row of data. Any clues? More details needed? Sounds easy but I tried replacing the code with:
<FORM action=""><select size=10>
HTML

  while (@row = $sth->fetchrow()){
       
    
   ## Make our HTML look better if no data.
    $oid = "&nbsp;" if($oid eq "");
    $date = "&nbsp;" if($date eq "");
    $username = "&nbsp;" if($username eq "");
    

   print <<HTML;
         
     <OPTION>$row[0] $row[1] $row[2]</option>
HTML
  } # End of while.

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That didn't seem to work. My only conclusion is that i don't use (@row = $sth->fetchrow()

In reply to Trying to add objects in dropdown by nlafferty

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