Below is the main.php file I am trying to get to work, I am unfortunately a novice jumping in the deep end because I have no choice 
any help would be much appreciated as I've spent half a day fiddling with this... all it gives is a blank page and no results from the database.
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<?php
$hostname = "localhost";
$usernamedb = "jonkane";
$passworddb = "password";
$dbName = "informotion";
$db = MYSQL_CONNECT($hostname, $usernamedb, $passworddb);
@mysql_select_db("$dbName");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM clientDetails WHERE clientName='Madfish'",$db);
?>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<? include("db.include"); ?>
</body>
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It may seem strange to be trying to put the echo in an include page but I am trying to set up a template that lots of other .php files will read, displaying certain variables depending on what client .php page it is (hence the WHERE clientName='Madfish'). Hope this all makes sense to someone
The include file db.include has only this so far:
<?php echo $result; ?>
any help would be much appreciated as I've spent half a day fiddling with this... all it gives is a blank page and no results from the database. <head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<?php
$hostname = "localhost";
$usernamedb = "jonkane";
$passworddb = "password";
$dbName = "informotion";
$db = MYSQL_CONNECT($hostname, $usernamedb, $passworddb);
@mysql_select_db("$dbName");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM clientDetails WHERE clientName='Madfish'",$db);
?>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<? include("db.include"); ?>
</body>
__________________________________________
It may seem strange to be trying to put the echo in an include page but I am trying to set up a template that lots of other .php files will read, displaying certain variables depending on what client .php page it is (hence the WHERE clientName='Madfish'). Hope this all makes sense to someone
The include file db.include has only this so far:
<?php echo $result; ?>