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Asked: 2026-06-06T05:48:56+00:00

I’m a complete newbie when it comes to HTML, I’ve never needed to do

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I’m a complete newbie when it comes to HTML, I’ve never needed to do any webpage stuff before so apologies if I’m being a simpleton.

I have a high score table for an iOS app, and I want to display it on the website for the app as well. The leaderboard is working fine in the app using PHP and mySQL, but when I try to access the database using PHP inside an HTML file it doesn’t seem to pay any attention to the logic of the PHP (i.e. if I have an if/else statement, it will run both even cases).

Here is a simplified version of my code, if connection to the database is successful then the first column in the table header will say “success”, otherwise it will say “failure”.

<body>

<table class="altrowstable" id="alternatecolor">

<?php
if (!mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd))
{
    <tr>
    <th>Failure</th><th>Player</th><th>Points</th><th>Played</th><th>Wins</th><th>Draws</th><th>Losses</th>
    </tr>
}
else
{
    <tr>
    <th>Success</th><th>Player</th><th>Points</th><th>Played</th><th>Wins</th><th>Draws</th><th>Losses</th>
    </tr>
}

?>

</table>
</body>

Can anyone see what has been done incorrectly here? I assumed that the if/else would work as normal, but instead I get both rows inserted into the table, “failure” and “success”.

Edit:
I have also tried using echo “”; etc, but not sure which way is correct as they both give me the same error where it ignores the PHP.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check extension of your file. It need to be filename.php
    You need a server to launch php code
    You can use echo heredoc like here

    <body>

<table class="altrowstable" id="alternatecolor">

<?php
if (!mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pwd))
{
echo <<<_END
<tr>
<th>Failure</th><th>Player</th><th>Points</th><th>Played</th><th>Wins</th><th>Draws</th><th>Losses</th>
</tr>
_END
}
else
{
echo <<<_END
<tr>
<th>Success</th><th>Player</th><th>Points</th><th>Played</th><th>Wins</th><th>Draws</th><th>Losses</th>
</tr>
_END
}
?>
</table>
</body>

    That seems to be working

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