The table that comes up when using the code downloaded from here, or typing it in from the book, looks nothing like the table displayed on page 117. The table appears as it does on page 112, with the data right below it, not inside the table. I didn't see anything on this in the errata section. Anyone else having this problem? How do I fix it to make it look like it does on page 117?

thanks

Jim

I fixed this. I forgot to remove <th>Movie Lead Actor</th>, <th>Movie Type</th>, and </table> from the revision.

Jim

This piece of code will not work for me at all

I just get a blank page? I've also tried the downloaded one, which does the same thing...

I've entered it as follows:

"Those who do not believe in magic will never find it" - Roald Dahl

I am about to give up. I only get blank pages in this ¤&()"¤& chapter both when I write my own code and when I try to download the code. I've checked the erata and many posts at P2P.

My code is below and it corresponds with the book page 114-115.
I really wonder if just an end-tag for the table is missing </table>. Have tried to place it in various posistions with no succes.

I have no blanks, tabs or anything else after the =<<<EOD and the EOD;

Uh, I would be happy if someone can look through this I'm just a newbee to it all

<?php
$link = mysql_connect ("localhost", "root", "XXXXX")
    or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("moviesite")
    or die(mysql_error());
$query = "SELECT movie_name, movie_director, movie_leadactor " .
                    "FROM movie";

$result = mysql_query($query, $link)
    or die(mysql_error());
$num_movies = mysql_num_rows($result);

$movie_header=<<<EOD
<h2><center>Movie Review Database</center></h2>
<table width="70%" border="1" cellpadding="2"
       cellspacing="2" align="center">
  <tr>
    <th>Movie Title</th>
    <th>Year of Release</th>
    <th>Movie Director</th>
  </tr>
EOD;
$movie_details = '';
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  $movie_name = $row['movie_name'];
  $movie_director = $row['movie_director'];
  $movie_leadactor = $row['movie_leadactor'];

  $movie_details .=<<<EOD
  <tr>
    <td>$movie_name</td>
    <td>$movie_director</td>
    <td>$movie_leadactor</td>
  </tr>
EOD;
}

$movie_details .=<<<EOD
  <tr>
   <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Total :$num_movies Movies</td>
  </tr>
EOD;
?>

Hanne - Denmark

I gave up and went to page 116 there was the solution to the blank pages:

$movie_footer ="</table>";

$movie =<<<MOVIE
               $movie_header
               $movie_details
               $movie_footer
MOVIE;

  echo "There are $num_movies movies in our database";
  echo $movie;
?>

Best Regards,
Hanne B. Stegemüller - Denmark

HAHAHA :D