index.php

<?php
    define( "SELECT_LIST", "SELECT name,email,bear FROM competition" );
    define( "TMPL_PATH", "../templates" );
    define( "TMPL_FILE", "showlist.tmpl" );
    define( "HOST", "localhost" );
    define( "USER", "<USERNAME>" );
    define( "PASSWD", "<PASSWORD>" );
    define( "DB", "<DATABASENAME>" );

    /* Home:   http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Template_IT */
    require_once "HTML/Template/IT.php";

    // Init
    $con = dbx_connect( DBX_MYSQL, HOST, DB, USER, PASSWD ) or
           die( "<html><body>Error connecting to database!</body></html>" );
    $template = new HTML_Template_IT( TMPL_PATH );
    $template->loadTemplatefile( TMPL_FILE, true, true );

    // Data processing
    $result = dbx_query( $con, SELECT_LIST );
    if ( is_object($result) ) {
        if ( $result->rows > 0 ) {
            for ( $i=0; $i < $result->rows; $i++ ) {
                $template->setCurrentBlock( "participant" );
                $template->setVariable( $result->data[$i] );
                $template->parseCurrentBlock( "participant" );
            }
        } else {
                $template->setCurrentBlock( "participant" );
                $template->setVariable( "name", "" );
                $template->setVariable( "email", "" );
                $template->setVariable( "bear", "" );
                $template->parseCurrentBlock( "participant" );
        }
    }
    dbx_close( $con );
    
    // Create HTML output
    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
    $template->show();
?>