Popup menu problem

G'day all, I've struck a problem with an existing piece of code which I want to move to a new one. I'm aware of the issues with register global being off as far as forms are concerned, but I can't figure out why this snippet doesn't work. It displays the code rather than the popups. <?php $db_name = "torch"; $table_name = "stories" $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost","user","paswword") or die("Couldn't Connect."); $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select database."); $getlist = mysql_query("SELECT distinct Writer FROM stories order by Writer"); echo " <select name=\"WriterName\">\n"; echo " <option>\n"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($getlist)) { echo ' <option value="'.$row["Writer"].'">'.$row["Writer"]."</option>\n"; } echo " </select>\n"; ?> As I said, it works fine on our current web server (apache 1.3x with a similar vintage PHP and MySQL) but I have built the new server with Apache 2.0.47, MySQL 4 and PHP 4.3.2 (on MacOSX 10.2.6). I've pretty much ruled out MySQL because the query returns the correct result when run from the CLI. I have another couple of pages which use hard coded popups and they work fine. PHP seems fine as I can display phpinfo() without problem. Any help, as always, would be greatly appreciated. cheers kim