Looping?

[theDog]

What the heck could possibly be wrong with this? It can't be any simpler, so i must be missing something simple.

All it's supposed to do is pull messages from a crashed forum so people can have them back. When i fire it up, it goes nuts and apparently keeps going back to thhe first table cell. Hard to tell, because the effect is a lot of scrolling and blinking.

<?php 
$db = @mysql_connect("localhost", "*****", "*****");
if (!$db) {
echo( "<p>Unable to connect to the " .
"database server at this time.</p>" );
exit();
}
if (! @mysql_select_db("recover") ) {
echo( "<p>Unable to locate the " .
"database at this time.</p >" );
exit();
}
$result = @mysql_query(
"SELECT * FROM messages WHERE fid='17'"); 
if (!$result) {
echo("<p>Error performing query: " .
mysql_error() . "</p>");
exit();
}
echo("<table border=\"1\">");
while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {
$message = $row["message"];
$message = htmlspecialchars($message);
echo("<tr>");
echo("<td>$message</td>\n");
echo("</tr>");
}
?>
</table>

Thanks

[marblo]

I´m reaööy a newbie...
But this looks wrong:
echo("<td>$message</td>\n");

It should look like this?:
echo("<td>".$message"</td>\n");

[theDog]

That didn't hurt anything, but it didnt help either.

Thanks

[marblo]

hmm... well I can´t think of anything, but I noticed that I wrote the wrong code... what I meant was:

echo("<td>".$message."</td>\n");

I´m not sure if that helps but that´s what it´s supposed to look like! I think!

[theDog]

Yah, i figured that in. No hurt, but no fix. 🙁

[theDog]

Update:

It was PHP 4.4. I rolled back and the script works fine.

Don't use that yet, i guess.