this is what i made, it doesn't work, what im trying to do is populate a list with a loop,

<?Php
<form action="" method="get"><select name="list">
for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
<option value="$i">$i</option>
}

</select></form> ?>

You can't just type out your markup in the middle of your PHP code. HTML is generally the output of PHP, not PHP itself.

PHP Code:

<form action="" method="get">
     <select name="list">
<?php
for($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++)
     echo "\n\t\t<option value=\"$i\">$i</option>";
?>
     </select>
</form>