its driving me crazy and its only the first task
OK here isthe code I copied from the Article..
PHP Code:<html>
<head>
<title>Our list of Jokes</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
//connnect to the database server
$dbcnx = @mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");
if (!$dbcnx) {
echo( "<p>Unable to connect to the " .
"database server at this time.</p>" );
exit();
}
//select the jokes database
if (! @mysql_selct_db("db_name") ) {
echo( "<p>Unable to connect to the " .
"Joke Database at this time.</p>" );
exit();
}
?>
<p>Here are all the Jokes in our database: </p>
<blockquote>
<?php
//Request the text of all the jokes
$result = mysql_query(
"SELECT JokeText from Jokes");
if (!$result) {
echo("<p>Error performing query: " .
mysql_error() . "<p>");
exit();
}
//Display the text of each joke in the paragraph
While ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {
echo("<p>" . $row["JokeText"] . "<p>");
}
?>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>
It bsaically gives me nothing and this in the view source
<html>
<head>
<title>Our list of Jokes</title>
</head>
<body>
So I think well I will copy the actual code straight from Kevins tutorial on the web and place my db cnx' on there..
The at least I get the follwing on the view source
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE> Our List of Jokes </TITLE><HEAD><BODY><P> Here are all the jokes in our database: </P><BLOCKQUOTE>
</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
Still not what I wantI have 2 jokes in my db
can someone help
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