Displaying records from mysql table.

[minds_gifts]

hello everyone,

I'm new to php and mysql.well, i'm trying to get record(s) from a table.
I could'nt display it on my form.could somebody please tell me where i'm going wrong.

$query = "SELECT parenttopic_name,parenttopic_content FROM topic ";  

	$result = mysql_query($query); 
	$numrows = mysql_num_rows($result); 
	while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
	$parent_topicname=$row->parenttopic_name;
	$parent_topiccontent=$row->parenttopic_content; 
//  echo " $row[parenttopic_content]"; --->When i remove the comment of this line, it displays the value from the table on the form.
<tr>
    <td width="519" height="19"><INPUT 
      name="parenttopicname" value = "<? echo $parent_topicname; ?>"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="519" height="117"><INPUT type="text"
      name="parenttopiccontent" value = "<? echo $parent_topiccontent; ?>"></td>
  </tr>

Thanking you in advance to pointing out my error.

[siwis]

Try changing

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $parent_topicname=$row->parenttopic_name;
    $parent_topiccontent=$row->parenttopic_content; 

to

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $parent_topicname=$row['parenttopic_name'];
    $parent_topiccontent=$row['parenttopic_content']; 

[minds_gifts]

Thanks siwis!well, if we have more than one record and if we have to many form fields on the page, could you please tell me how i should modify my code in order to display them.

thank you very much.