Creating a form dropdown from db

[eluser]Bionicjoe[/eluser]
Thanks Laytone, but I'm still getting an Undefined variable error in the view.
Tried several things, but still get this error.

The 'addticket_view'

Code:

<?php
            //Call Submit function from controller.
            echo form_open('outage/submit_addticket');
?>
                <table>
                    <tr><td>Number</td><td>&lt;input type="text" name="ticketnumber"&gt;&lt;/td><tr>
                    <tr><td>Summary</td><td>&lt;input type="text" name="summary"&gt;&lt;/td><tr>
                    <tr><td>Location</td><td>&lt;?php echo form_dropdown('options', $dropdownoptions); ?&gt;</td><tr>
                    <tr><td>Start</td><td>&lt;input type="text" name="starttime"&gt;&lt;/td><tr>
                    <tr><td>End</td><td>&lt;input type="text" name="endtime"&gt;&lt;/td><tr>
                    <tr><td></td><td>&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit"&gt;&lt;/td><tr>
                </table>
            &lt;/form&gt;