Why?

[Anon]

Thanks for any help in advance....i have only just tried to pick this stuff up in the last few days so for give me for my ignorance. Why can i not just refer to images like this....

<?php

mysql_connect("localhost,"root");
mysql_select_db("images","$db");

$result = mysql_query("SELECT image_name FROM general WHERE image_name = $image_name");

echo "<img src=images/$image_name>";

?>

This is probably totally wrong but i cant find anything that helps me on the net and i havent gone to buy a book yet, tomorrow i think. Thanks

[leatherback]

Hi,
what do you try to do?
If you know the name of the image you want to refer to, then why do you try to extract it from a database??

Please let us know,

In general I'd say something like this is waht you'd need:

$result = mysql_query ($query) ;

while ($row =@ mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$Images .= "<img src=images/$row[Image_name]>";
}

echo $images;

J.