<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "admin";
$password = "xxxxxx";
$dbname = "module3";

// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
    die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

$sql = "SELECT title, link, area, shortdesc, period, id FROM tabella_file";

$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);


if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    // output data of each row
    while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {



           echo  "TITLE: " . $row["title"]. "-SHORTDESC: ". $row["shortdesc"].$row["period"]. "<a href=\""  . $row['link'] . "\" >" . "GO TO THE PROJECT" . '</a>'."<br>";

    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

mysqli_close($conn);
?>