For legend sake

Db driven dropdown

/**
* Codeigniter Based
*
*/

function get_selections($table, $id = 'id', $column = 'name')
{
      $alert='';
      $value= "select * from {$table}";
      $result=  $this->db->query($value);
      $count=  $result->num_rows();
      
      if(!$count || $count < 1)
      {
         alert.="<select id='null' name='null'><option value='null'>No selection available</option>";
      }
      else
      {
          $alert.="<select class='form-control' name='get_selections'><option value=''>select</option>";
          foreach($result->result_array() as $row)
          {
              $alert.="<option value='$row[{$id}]'>$row[{$column}]</option>";
          }
          $alert.="</select>";
          
      }
      return $alert;
}