wanttolearn Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 // please help why this code wont work correctly, everything is ok but it doesnt write te data from the data base into a table // thaaannkxxx <body> <?php $host="localhost"; // Host name $username="root"; // Mysql username $password=""; // Mysql password $db_name="test"; // Database name $tbl_name="forum_question"; // Table name // Connect to server and select databse. mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect"); mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select DB"); $sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name ORDER BY id DESC"; // OREDER BY id DESC is order result by descending $result=mysql_query($sql); ?> <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td width="6%" align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><strong>#</strong></td> <td width="53%" align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><strong>Topic</strong></td> <td width="15%" align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><strong>Views</strong></td> <td width="13%" align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><strong>Replies</strong></td> <td width="13%" align="center" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><strong>Date/Time</strong></td> </tr> <?php // Start looping table row while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ ?> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><? echo $rows['id']; ?></td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><a href="view_topic.php?id=<? echo $rows['id']; ?>"><? echo $rows['topic']; ?></a><BR></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><? echo $rows['view']; ?></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><? echo $rows['reply']; ?></td> <td align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><? echo $rows['datetime']; ?></td> </tr> <?php // Exit looping and close connection } mysql_close(); ?> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="right" bgcolor="#E6E6E6"><a href="create_topic.php"><strong>Create New Topic</strong> </a></td> </tr> </table> </body> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/273309-basic-forum/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDCode Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Check out mysql_error() Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/273309-basic-forum/#findComment-1406694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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