I have a table with a column named 'vendname'. This column isn't
completely populated so as I query the column within the table to
populate a pull down on a query page, there are many white spaces. My
intent is to eventually have all of those empty table cells populated
but until then, would really like to eliminate the white spaces and
hoped I might get some ideas here. As it currently stands, I have
approximately 50 rows with 15 'vendname' rows populated and a whole
bunch of white space that shows up on the pull down query.

My code is:

<?php
$hostName = "localhost";
$userName = "####";
$password = "########";
$dbName = "approvals";
$table = "approvals_tbl";

mysql_connect($hostName, $userName, $password) or die("Unable to
connect to host $hostName");

mysql_select_db($dbName) or die("Unable to select database $dbName");

$query = "SELECT DISTINCT vendname
FROM $table";
$result = mysql_query($query);

$number = mysql_numrows($result);

for ($i=0; $i<$number; $i++) {
$vendname = mysql_result($result,$i,"vendname");
print "<option value=\"$vendname\">$vendname</option>";
}

mysql_close();
?>

any is greatly appreciated.

John