populating a table from a database

[Vitesse]

K guys, i've managed some of my coding ok so far but now im seriously stuck and need lots of help :ermm:

I've got a separate page based on the forum style which is a quarter-mile timechart. I need to populate a table with the contents of a database and havnt a clue how to do it

basically the table in the template has 3 columns, Username, Car, Quarter-mile time. The database table (it's a separate mysql database) has one table "quartermile" which has 4 fields which are

1. "ID", Int, auto-incremented, primary field
2. "username", varchar,
3. "car", varchar
4. "qttime", Decimal

I just need to get the entire content of that DB table displayed on a table on my site (it's my test site so cock-ups/errors wont cause any harm).

Any assistance will be immensely appreciated as i've been working on this all day, every day for the last week and seem to be getting nowhere fast.

Many thanks

------------------------------- EDIT ------------------------------------
OK, worked out how to retrieve the data from the database just need some instruction on how to get the data into a table properly

Anyone????


all i want to do is retrieve all rows and put them in a table