I have the same problem. XAMPP seems to be set up ok but when I run your code I get nothing but a blank screen in my browser. Did you ever get a solution? Appreciate any help. Many thanks.
Joe --- In [email protected], Tedit kap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I copied this from somewhere as I want to connect to mysql using php for the first time but when I execute the program below there is only blank screen (I already inserted a test row to my table.) > > 1-In the program below what does $yourfield refer to? > > 2-Isn't this supposed to display the contents of my table? It is not displaying anything. > > All I want is a simple program thatwill enable me to run sql queries - preferably in a form format. Can someone help? Thanks > > <?php > //Connect To Database > $hostname='..............'; > $username='..............'; > $password='.................'; > $dbname='...........'; > $usertable='.............'; > $yourfield = '.............'; > mysql_connect($hostname,$username, $password) OR DIE ('Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.'); > mysql_select_db($dbname); > $query = 'SELECT * FROM $usertable'; > $result = mysql_query($query); > if($result) { > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ > $name = $row['$yourfield']; > echo 'Name: '.$name; > } > } > ?> > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
