<?php $con = mysqli_connect("localhost", "gbs788db", "pw", "gbs788db"); //This references the database. We store it as a variable only so that we don't have to keep writing it out. if(mysqli_connect_errno()) { die("Could not connect: " . mysqli_connect_errno());//Kills the connection if an error and uses mysqli_connect_errno () to print a readable message to the screen /*The error number will pass as a zero if it is successful; otherwise it will include an error number. The "." is a concatenator. */ } /*If we made it this far, it means that we successfully connected and made it to the next line. By putting echo, we are including html now!!*/ echo ' <html> <head> <title>Ooga</title> </head> <body> <h1>It is Tims Fault</h1> <table border="1"> <tr> <th>Accession</th> <th>Ordered By</th> <th>Test</th> <th>Turn Around Time</th> <th>Result</th> </tr> '; $sql = "SELECT * FROM `test2`;"; $result = mysqli_query($con, $sql); //This does what we have been doing in SQL: connecting to the database, and then putting in the query. while ($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result))//This command just looks at a table row by row. /*This while loop allows the computer to keep going back in and getting another result*/ { echo ' <tr> <td>' . $row['accession'] . '</td> <td>' . $row['ordering'] . '</td> <td>' . $row['test'] . '</td> <td>' . $row['tat'] . '</td> <td>' . $row['result'] . '</td> </tr> '; /*This closes out the echo*/ } echo ' </table> </body> </html> '; ?>