Re: Im new to this but...

In the HTML, you either need to use <?php echo $title; ?> or, if you have short tags on, <?= $title ?>, not <?php $title ?>. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Chris Hale wrote: > I have: > Apache 2.0.59 > MySQL 5.0.41 > PHP 4.4.7 & 5.2.5 > > and this is my program: > > <?php > session_start(); > include("includes/functions_main.php"); > include("Vars.php"); > ?> <?php get_header(); ?> > <?php get_sidebar(); ?> > <?php > $page = '$_GET[page]'; > $cxn = mysqli_connect($host, $user,$passwd, $database) or die > ("Can't Connect."); > $sql = "SELECT * FROM page WHERE id=$page"; > $result = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql); > $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result); > extract ($row); > ?> > <div id="column_right"> > <div class="content"> > <h2><?php $title ?></h2> > <?php $content ?> > </div> > </div> > <?php get_footer();?> > > > But i get an error every time. I have read PHP and MySQL for Dummies > to get me started but none of the things in the book seem to work for > me. It is very frustrated. I dont know whether it just my lameass host > provider that hasn't set the mysql properly. > > I would appreciate any help. > > Thanks >