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Could some please help me. I am following a tutorial from "http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Building-A-Persistent-Shopping-Cart-With-PHP-and-MySQL/2/"

I keep getting a "
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\xampp\htdocs\cart1\products.php on line 59"

My db connection is fine but I am trying bring a result from the diagram shown in the url. Please help. This is what I have put in my code from the site the products page.

<?php // This page will list all of the items // from the items table. Each item will have // a link to add it to the cart include("db.php"); // Get a connection to the database $cxn = @ConnectToDb($dbServer, $dbUser, $dbPass, $dbName); $result = mysql_query("select * from items order by itemName asc"); ?> <?php while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { ?> <html> <head> <title>Products</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td width="30%" height="25"> <font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"> <?php echo $row["itemName"]; ?> </font> </td> <td width="10%" height="25"> <font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"> <?php echo $row["itemPrice"]; ?> </font> </td> <td width="50%" height="25"> <font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"> <?php echo $row["itemDesc"]; ?> </font> </td> <td width="10%" height="25"> <font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"> <a href="cart.php?action=add_item&id=<?php echo $row["itemId"]; ?>&qty=1">Add Item</a> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="4"> <hr size="1" color="red" NOSHADE> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="4"> <font face="verdana" size="1" color="black"> <a href="cart.php">Your Shopping Cart &gt;&gt;</a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
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If that is all the code from the page it is because you forgot the closing curley brace } for the while loop

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If that is all the code from the page it is because you forgot the closing curley brace } for the while loop

Thanks would anyone know where i can get info on how to display information from a database or retrieve info for my items and display them on the page

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It depends on which database your using (mysql, mssql etc) www.php.net and search mysql ;)

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Well have a look on php.net as there are alot of user submitted examples and walkthroughs that will be able to help you

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