Why is my code not working?

[ATLien]

ok I am not sure what is wrong with the code I just wrote. Will someone take a look at it for me. What I am trying to do is open MySQL table and order it by the votes feild (higher# at the top) then I want to print the top five like this

<a href=" (the site url from the sites_url feild"><img src"(the link the is under the sites_banner)"></a>

I tried to make the code but I am still learning. can someone help me?

<?php

$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "???????", "?????") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("wirednig_topsites"); 

$sql = "SELECT site_url, site_banner
	FROM " . mtl_sites . " 
	ORDER BY votes";
$bannerA = "$sql[1]'site_banner'";
$urlA = "$sql[1]";
$topA = '<a href="'.$urlA.'"><img border=0 src='.$bannerA.'></a>';

echo $topA;  

?>

I know there is only one being printed. But I was just trying to figure it out. will someone help please. Thanks In advanced.

[planetsim]

You must remember to run $sql in a query..

so

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT site_url, site_banner FROM " . mtl_sites . " ORDER BY votes");

You also need to fetch it

Either by an Array, Object and a few others which i dont use..
Just take a look at the manual on how you want to go about fetching the record