<?php
$db = mysql_connect( "localhost" ,  "root" ,  "pass" );
mysql_select_db( "mybd" ,$db);
$result = mysql_query( "SELECT * FROM mytable" ,$db);
echo  "<table border=1 >\n";
echo  "<tr><td>name</td><td>points</tr>\n" ;
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
printf( "<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>\n" , $myrow[ "name" ], $myrow[ "points" ]);
}
echo  "</table>\n" ;
?>