displaying data on webpage from database

[leoo24]

Hi all,
could anyone give me just the basic idea of how i reperesent the data from a mysql database on a webpage?
So far all i can guess is you make a template in html/php and leave some "blanks" for data to be displayed in. Say for example a lycos profile: that page has a space for an image, and then sections for age, location etc..., so i assume that is a blank which has then been filled with the appropriate data after someone has searched for a profile fitting certain criteria.

Cheers for any help
🙂
Leo

[PHPdev]

Not sure how basic you want things.. but here goes

Get Data from the database

Layout Page including Table Headers

Use While loop to run through multiple records formating data according to page layouts

If you want to output the data for just one record, and you know your select statement is going to return the record you want, then forget the while loop and just output the formatted data....

Let me know if this is to basic...

PHPdev