PHP code that talks to databases generally connect to the database, select a database, send a query and process through the results.

<?php
mysql_pconnect
("db.server.com","user","pwd");
mysql_select_db("products");
$result mysql_query("SELECT * FROM details");
if (
$result) {
    echo 
"<TABLE>\n";
    echo 
"<TR><TH>Name</TH><TH>Info</TH></TR>\n";
    while (
$a mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
      echo 
"<TR><TD>$a[name]</TD><TD>$a[info]</TD></TR>";
    }
    echo 
"</TABLE>";
} else {
    echo 
"<P>Nothing to see here.";
}
?>