Drop Down Menus

Hi wonder if anyone knows what I am doing wrong here. I have a drop down selection menu that is generated from a mysql database. In the database we have over 15 fields one of them contains text for the catergory that the entry belongs to. I have used the following code to generate my drop down menu but when i view it in the browser the drop down menu has not listed the categories instead we have blank entries for each selection. <? mysql_connect("localhost","user","password"); mysql_select_db("database"); $sql = "select distinct category from books ORDER BY category ASC"; $makes_result = mysql_query($sql); print ("<select name=\"category\">\n"); print("<option selected value=\"\">Please select a Category</option>\n"); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($makes_result)) { print("<option value=\"$row[1]\">$row[1]</option>\n"); } print("</select>"); ?> Thanks for the help. Barry