ok i have sorted my building tables problem... however...

i have created a script that allows a user to input data into the database tables

but now i want the information placed in the database to be viewed...

i am creating a news system and i want each news post to be in a seprate html table

the database columns ( attributes i think they r called now sure tho )

are called

title_news, body_news, author_news & date_news....

Take a look at the mysql_query page on the PHP manual, I think it has the answer you seek

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

Check out this site, it should help.

IMHO MySQL is a useful language quite distinct from PHP.
I found it really useful to play around with MySQL commands just on there own before using them in PHP. In fact, with some of the more complex queries I write, I still play around with them on their own first.
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