PHP/Javascript Integration Problem

I'm trying to write a javascript to syndicate the news on one of my clients pages. However, I am unable to get it to work. After about 6 hours of playing around, I've now got fed up. At best I've managed it to print $title or {$title} instead of the actual value of the variable. Now even that's not working!

<?php
include("config.php");
include("mainfile.php");
dbconnect();
$result = mysql_query("select sid, title from stories order by time desc limit 10");
while(list($sid, $title) = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
$b = 'var headline =' .".$title.".';'.'n';
echo $b;
$a = 'document.write("<li><a href=http://www.action-figure.com/article.php?sid='.$sid.'>");';

$c = 'document.write(headline+ "</a>");';
echo $a ."n";
echo $c ."n";
}
?>

Well if you are really tired of trying to make it work, here's a headline grabber I've used. I made changes to suit your setup and haven't tested it as is, but it gives a general idea.

<?
//Connection info

$result = mysql_query ("SELECT sid, $title FROM stories WHERE sid LIKE '%' order by time desc limit 10");
print ("<ul>");
if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
do {

print ("<li>");
print ("<A HREF="http://www.action-figure.com/article.php?sid='.$sid.'">");
print ("<font size="2" face="helvetica, arial" color="000000">");
print $row["title"];
print ("</a></font></li>");
} while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result));
} else {print "";}
?>

[This message has been edited by thedude (edited October 08, 2000).]