Populating the combo box in PHP

Populating the combo box

• Problem may occur when the values for the option tag are populated with values from database and those data have spaces. For Example If you populating names and there are names like “john, mary, alex ron” then

<option value=”**********“> may take values john, mary and alex instead alex ron.

To take care of this it is to be populated as (if using HTML within php script)

echo "<option value= "."'$row->abbrev'".">".$row->abbrev."</option>";  

incorrect method would be
  
echo "<option value= "."$row->abbrev".">".$row->abbrev."</option>";