Append 1 table to another

Hello,

I'm using MYSQL4 with php4.4,
I want to be able to order alphabetically information from several databases so then I can echo it to javascript with ajax.

I tried doing it the only way I could think of: I create a temporary database,
write all this information to it and then order that.

Is there an easier way?

Also, even this is giving me an error. Here is my code:

<?php
// Make a MySQL Connection
mysql_connect(-.....-) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("mydb") or die(mysql_error());

$myname="nm1";
$query = "SELECT Word, Translation FROM $myname ORDER BY word";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$tot=$tot+1;
$res1[$tot]=$row['word'];
$res2[$tot]=$row['translation'];
}

// Create a MySQL table in the selected database
mysql_query("CREATE TABLE example(
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
word VARCHAR(20),
translation VARCHAR(20))")
or die(mysql_error());

$count=$tot;
$tot=0;
while($tot<$count){
$tot=$tot+1;
mysql_query("INSERT INTO example
(word, translation) VALUES($res1[$tot], $res2[$tot] ) ");
or die(mysql_error());
}
?>
here is the error i get so far:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LOGICAL_OR on line 28

could somebody tell me at least why i get this error?
thanks

You're getting that error because these two statements should really be only one statement:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO example
(word, translation) VALUES($res1[$tot], $res2[$tot] ) ");
or die(mysql_error());

Remove the first semi-colon, and the error should go away.