Using MySql to populate a html table using a specific column - php

Question

Essentially, I am creating a movie ordering system that has 7 movie genres, and I want each movie tab to populate according to genre. At this point I cant even get the table to show up. Can anyone help me out?
<div id="content">
<table>
<tr><th>Name</th> <th>Genre</th> <th>Year</th> <th>Rating</th></tr>
<?php
//connect to database
$dbc = mysql_connect('localhost' , 'username' , 'password');
$test = mysql_select_db('movies', $dbc);
if ($test = mysql_select_db('movies', $dbc))//test
{
$query = "SELECT * FROM 'movies' WHERE 'genre' = 'Action'";
//call query
$result = mysql_query($query, $dbc);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
?>
<tr>
<td><?php print $row['name']; ?></td>
<td><?php print $row['genre']; ?></td>
<td><?php print $row['year']; ?></td>
<td><?php print $row['rating'];?></td>
</tr>
<table>
<?php
}//close the while loop
}//close the if statement
mysql_close($dbc);
?>

Answer 1

First of all, do not use mysql because of secure problems and it will be not suported in PHP later. Read about this http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php .
Try to use PDO or mysqli, for example :
$con=mysqli_connect("example.com","peter","abc123","my_db");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM 'movies' WHERE 'genre' = 'Action'");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['name'];
echo "<br>";
}
mysqli_close($con);