scopingissue

function connection(){
    	$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "password", "tablename");
	if(mysqli_connect_errno()) {
     		echo "Connection Failed: " . mysqli_connect_errno();
      		exit();
      	}
   return $mysqli;
}


function makedropdown($table, $column, $form) {
       connection();
       if($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT * FROM ? ORDER BY ? ASC")){
       $stmt -> bind_param("ss", $table, $column);
       $stmt -> execute();
       $stmt -> bind_result($result);
       echo "<select name='$form'>";
       While ($row = $stmt->fetch($result)){
            echo "<option>" . $row[1] . "</option>";
       }
       echo "</select>";
}
}