Idea lacking expirience .......

Hi invader980,

No it's not possible for PHP to do this as PHP is a server side scripting language and a drop down box (HTML) is client side.

You can however use PHP and javascript to accomplish this.

See this for an example of how to do what you're asking:

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Loading-JavaScript-Arrays-with-MySQL-Data/

Yes this is a smiple way but when your data become too important, you may wish to use Ajax combined with your menu. This way you can make calls to your server which gives back the data requested.

Here is an examlpe of how I used a dynamic select box using PHP.

In this case I have a table called "facilities" and display the information in the select options by calling the information from the db.
I further set the variable "$sticky" to retain the values upon error checking so the user has the value they originally entered.

<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM facilities ORDER BY Street1 ASC") or 
die(mysql_error());
$sticky= '';
if (isset($_POST['facility']))
$sticky = ($_POST['facility']);
$pulldown1 = '<select name="facility">';
$pulldown1 .= '<option></option>';
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
            {
if($row['FacilitiesID'] == $sticky) {
$pulldown1 .= "<option selected value=\"{$row['FacilitiesID']}\">
{$row['Street1']}&nbsp;-&nbsp;
{$row['City']}&nbsp;-&nbsp;
{$row['Name']}
</option>\n";
} else {
$pulldown1 .= "<option value=\"{$row['FacilitiesID']}\">
{$row['Street1']}&nbsp;-&nbsp;
{$row['City']}&nbsp;-&nbsp;
{$row['Name']}
</option>\n";
}
}
$pulldown1 .= '</select>';
echo $pulldown1;    
?>