Php and MySQL - searching a database

[lycanthropy]

Hey guys, i am having problems while searching for members on my website.. i have a form that users fill in before being able to click on a 'search' button.. which works and the code is:

<form method = "POST" action="searchName.php" onSubmit="returnverifyform(this)">

<br>First name: <input type ="text" name = "first">
<font color = "black"></font>

<br>Last name: <input type = "text" name = "second">
<font color="black"></font>

</select><input type="submit" value = "Search">

it then opens 'searchName.php' which is meant to search through a database that i have created online.. the code is below:

<?php
$connection = mysql_connect("sentinel.cs.cf.ac.uk","scm5sjc",
"num_fud");

$first=$POST['first'];
$second=$POST['second'];

mysql_select_db("sjcdb",$connection) or die("failed!");
echo $first;
echo $last;
$query = "SELECT * FROM info WHERE first='".$first."' AND last ='".$second."'";
echo $query;
$result = mysql_query($query, $connection);

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

$title = $row[2];
$first = $row[3];
$last = $row[4];

echo "$title." ".$first." ".$last.";

}

mysql_close($connection);
?>

However, the screen simply is left blank.. any ideas where im going wrong? i am a newbie im afraid so i apologise for any schoolboy errors!!
thanks for your time
steven

[rincewind456]

Try changing this

echo "$title." ".$first." ".$last.";

to this

echo $title." ".$first." ".$last;

[n_wattam]

agree with last post. If you have several verables like you do and you want to join them together you use the

.

as shown, however this is not being picked up because you have placed it in quote marks, so it will be treated more as WYSIWYG.

echo $first . $last;
echo " My First Name Is " . $first . " And last name is " . $last;