Displaying information from a database

I'm working on a forum. I would like to simple have php or html pull some info from my mysql database and put it on the s开发者_JS百科creen. Below is the table... do I use php for this? Thanks!

`forum_topic` varchar(65) 
`forum_prefix` varchar(65) 
`forum_title` varchar(65) 
`forum_content` longtext 

You can do this with php and mysql, it is not quite so straight forward though, you might want to look at this:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-create-a-phpmysql-powered-forum-from-scratch/

or this :

http://www.phpeasystep.com/phptu/12.html

Yes, this would be done in your php code.