PHP Select SQL view no output

Question

I creating a php file that pulls a view from an SQL database. Can someone let me know why this isn't working? It seems to be timing out. I am not getting a connection error, either. Thank you in advance.

<?php       
require ('mysqli_connect.php');         

    $sql = "SELECT * FROM testview ;";
    $result = mysqli_query($dbc,$sql);

     // Check connection if ($dbc->connect_error) {
          die("Connection failed: " . $dbc->connect_error); } 

     $result=mysqli_query($sql);

     if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
         echo "<table><tr><th>userID</th><th>first_name</th></tr>";
         // output data of each row
         while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<tr><td>".$row["userID"]."</td><td>".$row["first_name"]."</td></tr>";
}
  echo "</table>"; } else {
  echo "0 results"; }

} 
$dbc->close(); 

?>

Here is the connection file

<?php
DEFINE ('DB_USER', 'root');
DEFINE ('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');
DEFINE ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
DEFINE ('DB_NAME', 'Test');

// Make the connection:
$dbc = mysqli_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME) OR die ('Could not connect to MySQL: ' );
?>

Answer 1

give this a go. you were using mysqli and mysql in the same document. this somtime causes issues.

require_once ('mysqli_connect.php');         

$q = "SELECT * FROM testview";
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);

//there was no real need to check the connection, you should be doing this in your connection script.

//you where using 'mysqli' above and 'mysql' below. 
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($r);

if ($r) {

   echo "<table><tr><th>userID</th><th>first_name</th></tr>";

     while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($r)){

         echo "<tr><td>" . $row["userID"] . "</td><td>" . $row["first_name"] . " " . $row["last_name"] . "</td></tr>";
     }
         echo "</table>"; 
} else {
         echo "0 results"; 
}

close($conn);