How to create a CakePHP dropdown list?

Question

CakePHP

Not long ago I started to study CakePHP, I faced the task that it is necessary to create a drop-down list, I figured out how to create it, only one thing remains not clear how to set the placeholder, and how to make it start from the very top, it turns out that the first item is empty, and the display starts with second paragraph

Answer 1

dropdown refers to html markup, select has different properties