Dealing with ENUM fields

I have a field in my database for which there are only four potential values and, as such, I would like to use an ENUM field. However, I can't find an easy way to load the "values" of this field into a select form element. Is there a simple method for doing this or are the only solutions fairly complex? I'm simply trying to avoid using another table since it will contain only four elements. Thanks. Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com