extract() help

Hi PHPers, the following function is supposed to build an html table, creating a content row for every row in a database table. It is creating a table with the correct number of rows, but NO content is being echoed... I think I must be using the extract() function inside the for loop wrong... any pointers? tia! jaxon <?php function news_box($max) { include_once("inc/config.inc"); include_once("inc/db_connect_params.inc"); $link_id = mysql_connect($host, $usr, $pass); mysql_select_db($database, $link_id); //select database catalog echo "<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" width=\"165\">"; if (!isset($max)) $max=5; //upper limit of news boxes to build for ($i = 1; $i <= $max; $i++) { $sql="select i.nID, i.date, i.headline, i.subtitle, i.blurb from news_items i, news_box b where i.nID = b.nID and b.dID = $i"; $result = mysql_query($sql, $link_id); $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); extract($row); //the variables below match field names in this row echo " <tr><td><h1>$headline</h1></td></tr> <tr><td><h4>$subtitle</h4></td></tr> <tr><td align=\"right\"><h6>$date</h6></td></tr> <tr><td>$blurb</td></tr> <tr><td><a href=\"news.php?#$nID\"><h5>...more</h5></a></td></tr> "; echo "</table>"; } } ?>