Okay so this is so strange and it happened by accident but like a lot of others I was stuck on creating Table2 in Chapter 4. I mistakenly typed into my URL, this:
http://localhost/table2.php
AND IT WORKED! Without the "\" it continued to show up blank but adding that "\" at the end made it display. This is so strange, but I kept checking and rechecking my code and it was all correct, I had no spaces after my EOD statements or anything. And this fixed it. Perhaps it will help others as well. This is what my code looks like:
<?php
$link = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password") 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>Movie Director</th>
<th>Movie Lead Actor</th>
</tr>
EOD;
function get_director() {
global $movie_director;
global $director;
$query_d = "SELECT people_fullname " .
"FROM people " .
"WHERE people_id='$movie_director'";
$results_d = mysql_query($query_d) or die(mysql_error());
$row_d = mysql_fetch_array($results_d);
extract ($row_d);
$director = $people_fullname;
}
function get_leadactor() {
global $movie_leadactor;
global $leadactor;
$query_a = "SELECT people_fullname " .
"FROM people " .
"WHERE people_id='$movie_leadactor'";
$results_a = mysql_query($query_a) or die(mysql_error());
$row_a = mysql_fetch_array($results_a);
extract($row_a);
$leadactor = $people_fullname;
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$movie_name = $row['movie_name'];
$movie_director = $row['movie_director'];
$movie_leadactor = $row['movie_leadactor'];
get_director();
get_leadactor();
$movie_details .=<<<EOD
<tr>
<td>$movie_name</td>
<td>$director</td>
<td>$leadactor</td>
</tr>
EOD;
}
$movie_details .=<<<EOD
<tr>
<td>Total :$num_movies Movies</td>
</tr>
EOD;
$movie_footer = "</table>";
$movie =<<<MOVIE
$movie_header
$movie_details
$movie_footer
MOVIE;
echo "There are $num_movies movies in our database";
echo $movie;
?>