Seeing as your using 

$query->textfield(-name=>'Company_Name',-size=>20);

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you must be using the CGI module, so you need to use
$query->popup_menu(-name=>'Company_Name',-values=>\@first_entries);

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values will accept an anonymous array 

['company1','company2']

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a pointer to an array as above 
@first_entries=('company1','company2');

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and will be ordered as presented. However you can otherwise specify which element should be presented by default 
-default=>'company1'

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finally you could (for example) want the script to call the companies by url while the dropdown box displays the company_name (or more likely to use id fields) in which case 
@values=('URL1','URL2','URL3');
%labels=('URL1'=>'company1','URL2'=>'company2','URL3'=>'company3');
print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'Company_Name',
  -values=>\@values,-labels=>\%labels,-default=>'URL2');

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As for getting the data in there....there's more than one way to do it :-)

In reply to Re: Drop Down Selection From Database by bfree
in thread Drop Down Selection From Database by koacamper

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