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Asked: 2026-06-15T00:29:00+00:00

I’m trying to write a very basic PHP script to fetch some information from

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I’m trying to write a very basic PHP script to fetch some information from a database and output it into a table. Here is the code I have written to far:

<html>
<head>
    <title>FamInfo from dbCAN</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Test PHP page">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
    <h1>FamInfo from dbCAN</h1>
    <table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5">
    <th>Family ID</th><th>Signature Domain</th><th>class</th><th>note</th><th>activity</th>
        <?php
            include '/vars.php'; // fixed, no change
            $conn = mysql_connect($hostname,$username,$password);
            $db_selected = mysql_select_db($db,$conn);
            $result = mysql_query("select * from FamInfo",$conn);
            while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
            {
                echo '<tr>'; // terminates here, at the second quote
                    echo "<td>" . $row["FamID"] . "</td>";
                    echo "<td>" . $row["SigDomain"] . "</td>";
                    echo "<td>" . $row["class"] . "</td>";
                    echo "<td>" . $row["note"] . "</td>";
                    echo "<td>" . $row["activity"] . "</td>";
                echo '</tr><br>';
            }
            mysql_close($conn);
        ?>
    </table>
</body>

For some reason, it seems as if the PHP is terminating at the line where I try to echo the table row, which means I’m not getting and of the values I need. Here’s an image of what the output looks like: sorry about the funky highlighting

Does anyone know why this is happening, or what a potential solution is? Thank you for your input!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are not ending the include '/vars.php' statement with a semi-colon. You should also enclose the header row in row tags, <tr></tr>.

    Also no need to have <br> tag between table rows.

    You might have an error in /vars.php as well. Have you checked the error logs? You might post that code too.

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