To begin with your program list does not appear complete. The program I have in PHP.and.MySQL.for.Dummies.2nd.Edit.pdf is:
<html>
<head><title>Test MySQL</title></head>
<body>
<!-- mysql_up.php -->
<?php
$host="localhost";
$user="root";
$password="XXXXXXXXXXXX";
mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
$sql="show status";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if ($result == 0)
echo "<b>Error " . mysql_errno() . ": "
. mysql_error() . "</b>";
else
{
?>
<!-- Table that displays the results -->
<table border="1">
<tr><td><b>Variable_name</b></td><td><b>Value</b>
</td></tr>
<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_rows($result); $i++) {
echo "<TR>";
$row_array = mysql_fetch_row($result);
for ($j = 0; $j < mysql_num_fields($result); $j++)
{
echo "<TD>" . $row_array[$j] . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}
?>
</table>
<?php } ?>
</body></html>
This is what I ran, and it works fine. You must haved missed one of those characters
somewhere. They are sneaky lil critters you have to get them all.
I don't know which HTML editor you are using but you can certainly use Notepad to replace them.