Hi! I have been trying to learn this and have run into a wall. I typed the code exactly as in the book (pg 114-115) and I kept getting this error "unexpected .<<. I searched the web and found the source code. It looked the same so I just copied and pasted....just to see if it would work. It did, but now I get the error, "Undefined variable: movie_details. Below is the code I have, the var $movie_details is used twice and only the second one gives the error. If someone would assist me I would REALLY appreciate it!

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;

As I was, the code available on the site is missing $movie_details = ''; just before the loop. I thought I'd write just in case I'm not the only one having this problem. Mine works great now!