[1Unreal]

So you want to have a textarea and whatever it typed into that to be displayed in a drop down box?

You could do something like this assuming each catagory is displayed in the textarea line by line:

PHP Code:

//Data from textarea
$data = $_POST['textarea'];

//Seperate out the data
$data = explode("n\", $data);

//Start the option field
echo '<select>';

//Put each line into the option of a drop down menu
foreach($data as $d){
    echo '<option>'.$d.'</option>';
}
//end the option field
echo '</select>'; 


Is that what you mean?