title: Help displaying data from a MySQL database
body: <p>I want to display some basic data from a MySQL database. Here's the current code I have, but it doesn't seem to work. Could someone please explain why this doesn't work and offer a solution? Thanks!</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  
  mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");
  mysql_select_db("cede") or die("Couldn't find database");
  
  $result = 'SELECT * FROM 'users' ORDER BY 'DATE' DESC LIMIT 8';
  
  echo = "'$result'"
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>