Create a PHP Dropdown menu from a for loop?

Question

I am trying to create a drop down menu with the options of 1,2,3 and 4.

The below code is what I am using just now and the dropdown is empty.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

<select name="years">
<?php 

for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
{

"<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";
}
?> 
     <option name="years"> </option>   
        </select> 

            <input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Answer 1

You are not outputting the option tags. Try it like this:

<select name="years">

<?php 

for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
{

    echo "<option value=".$i.">".$i."</option>";
}
?> 
     <option name="years"> </option>   
</select> 

<input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Answer 2

You basically use html without closing the php syntax.Your code should look like this:

 <select name="years">
    <?php 

    for($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)
     {
      ?>

     <option value="<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></option>
    <?php
        }
        ?> 
 <option name="years"> </option>   
    </select> 

        <input type="submit" name="submitYears" value="Year" />

Or are you trying to echo the option? In that case you forgot the echo statement:

 echo "<option value= ".$i.">".$i."</option>";