I want to create a form with a country drop down list so I can just google and get all the countries but the question should I just encode it statically or generate dynamically with PHP. (Note it doesn't have to be necessary country list just any static list with lots of data)HTML Example:<select>  <option value=AF>Afghanistan</option>  <option value=AX>land Islands</option>  <option value=AL>Albania</option>  ...</select>or use php array i.e.$countries = array (    'AF' => 'Afghanistan',    'AX' => 'land Islands',    'AL' => 'Albania',    ...    );and generate html<!--Method 1--><select>  <?php foreach($countries as $id => $country) echo <option value='$id'>$country</option>\n ?></select>Also which method of generating is preferred or is more readable?<!--Method 2--><select>  <?php foreach($countries as $id => $country):?>  <option value=<?php echo $id; ?>><?php echo $country; ?></option>  <?php endforeach; ?></select>And finally should I escape variables with htmlspecialchars even though I know the output will be valid?
Form with a country list statically or dynamically generated
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