thanks to Chris and Dimiter, I think I am close but still the problem is not solved, when I add echo "<img src='/album/img/".$row["photoFileName"]."' /> to the code as it was sugested by Dimiter there is parse Error : PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\album\show.php on line 44 line 44 is end of the code just after </html> what does it mean? >I am storing just the name of photos in the database and the photos are >in /img folder ,and there is no permissions issue. My testing server >is IIS And the path would be something like this : Inetpub\wwwroot\album\img >as I am running out of time! could someone complete this code just with >one echo and img src so that I can retrive my photos ? >MySQL columns : photoID=seq number > photoFileName=name of my photo like 3sw.jpg > title=title > description=short description >----------------------------------------------------------------- <body> <?php $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'pw'); if (!$link) { die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error()); } echo 'connected!'; $db_selected = mysql_select_db('album', $link); if (!$db_selected) { die ('Can\'t use foo : ' . mysql_error()); } $query = "SELECT * FROM photo"; $result=mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<img src='/album/img/".$row["photoFileName"]."' /> } mysql_free_result($result); ?> </body> </html> --------------------------------- Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.