Apparently I took my C programming and tried it out with PHP...
and it works,,, it may not be the correct procedure.... but what the heck ... it works.
Here it is: (I had my output information in a table by the way)
<td width="100" height="60"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Colours
<?
$clrs = explode(",", $colours);
?>
<select name="select">
<?
$a=0;
while($clrs[$a] != NULL)
{
?>
<option value="<? echo $clrs[$a] ?>"> <? echo $clrs[$a]; ?></option>
<?
$a++;
}
?>
</select>
</font></td>