Problem calling data from mySQL

I have been re-working a website, and moving everything to a database.

I have the menu up, I can even list the articles available for reading. I have one problem left.

To make things 'easier', I decided to just do a target="_blank" to read each article in their own window. The problem is, when the window opens the query.php file, I get a empty table.

Code:

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<table>

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Code:

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</table>

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are outside the while loop construct. the tr's and td's are inside...

The article_name, the article_id, and the article_text do not show up. even tho when I run the raw query in mysql I get my desired results.

The only thing I can think of, is its not taking the article_id=1 in the url and passing it into the mysql statement. Any advise how I can do this?

My existing code is as follows

[code query.php]
<?php

include "required/db.inc.php";

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM EFN_articles WHERE id = '$article_id'",$db);

echo "<table border=1>\n";
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

printf("<tr><td align=center>%s</td></tr>
<tr><td align=left>%s</td></tr>\n",
$myrow[3], $myrow[5]);

}
echo "</table>\n";
?>
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Many thanks,

Thomas