cara menambahkan select * from?

permisi para master, saya ingin memunculkan nama, nip, dll. di dalam $content= dari table user dari query $sqlsa="SELECT * FROM user WHERE nip = ".$penilai;, sudah saya coba tp gagal.. mohon bantuannya.. codingannya jd bagaimana ya? oh iya ini codingan untuk di HTML2PDF

<?php
	ob_start();
	mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
	mysql_select_db("skp");
	require ("html2pdf/html2pdf.class.php");
	$now = date('d-m-Y');
	$filename="account.pdf";
	$content = ob_get_clean();
	$penilai = $_GET['penilai'];
	$dinilai = $_GET['dinilai'];
	$sqlsa="SELECT * FROM user WHERE nip = ".$penilai;
	$sqldu="SELECT * FROM user WHERE nip = ".$dinilai;
	$content = "
	<table align=center border=0 style='border-bottom: 1px solid #999999; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 203mm;'>
					<tr valign='top'>
						<td style='width: 203mm;' valign='middle'>
							<div style='font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 5px; font-size: 12pt;'>
								<p align=center><br><br><br>FORMULIR SASARAN KERJA <br> PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL</p>
							</div>
						</td>
					</tr>
				</table>
				<table align=center border=1 cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' style='width: 210mm;'>
					<tr>
					<th>NO</th><th colspan=2>I. PEJABAT PENILAI</th><th>NO</th><th colspan=6>II. PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL YANG DINILAI</th>
					</tr>
					<tr>
					<td>
						<table border=0>
							<tr><td>1</td></tr>
							<tr><td>2</td></tr>
							<tr><td>3</td></tr>
							<tr><td>4</td></tr>
							<tr><td>5</td></tr>
						</table>
					</td>
					<td colspan=2>
					<table border=0>
						<tr><td>Nama</td><td>$nama1</td></tr>
						<tr><td>NIP</td><td>$nip1</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Pangkat/GolRuang</td><td>$pangkat_gol1</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Jabatan</td><td>$jabatan1</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Unit Kerja</td><td>$unit_kerja1</td></tr>
					</table>
					</td>
					<td>
					<table border=0>
						<tr><td>1</td></tr>
						<tr><td>2</td></tr>
						<tr><td>3</td></tr>
						<tr><td>4</td></tr>
						<tr><td>5</td></tr>
					</table>
					</td><td colspan=6>
					<table border=0>
						<tr><td>Nama</td><td></td></tr>
						<tr><td>NIP</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Pangkat/GolRuang</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Jabatan</td></tr>
						<tr><td>Unit Kerja</td></tr>
					</table>
					</td>
					</tr>
					<tr bgcolor='#CCCCCC'>
					<th rowspan=2>No</th>
					<th style='width: 103mm;' rowspan=2 colspan=2  align=center>III. Kegiatan Tugas Jabatan</th>
					<th rowspan=2>AK</th>
					<th colspan=6  align=center style='height: 5mm;'>Target</th>
					</tr>
					<tr>
					<th colspan=2 style='width: 20mm; height=5mm'  align=center>kuant/Out</th>
					<th  align=center>Kual/Mutu</th>
					<th colspan=2  align=center>Waktu</th>
					<th style='width: 20mm;' align=center>Biaya</th>
					</tr>";
	$sql="SELECT * FROM penilaian";
	$hasil=mysql_query($sql);
	$i=1;
	while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($hasil))
		{
			$content.="<tr bgcolor='#FFFFFF'>
						<td>$i</td>
						<td>$row[kegiatan]</td>
						<td style='width: 6mm;'  align=center>$row[tkredit]</td>
						<td  align=center>$row[t_ak]</td>
						<td style='width: 10mm;' align=center>$row[t_out]</td>
						<td style='width: 10mm;' align=center>$row[t_satuan]</td>
						<td align=center>$row[t_kual]</td>
						<td style='width: 10mm;' align=center>$row[t_waktu]</td>
						<td style='width: 10mm;' align=center>$row[t_satwaktu]</td>
						<td align=center>$row[t_biaya]</td>
					</tr>";
			$i++;
		}
	$content.="</table>";
	$content.="<br><table border=0 align=center>
	<tr>
	<td colspan=2 align=right>Depok, $now</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td style='width: 80mm;'>Pejabat Penilai</td><td style='width: 80mm;' align=right>Pegawai Negeri Sipil Yang Dinilai</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<td style='height: 11mm;'></td><td></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
	<th> $nama1</th><td></td>
	</tr>
	</table>";
	$content.="<table align='center' border='0'><tr><td style='width: 213mm;'> Catatan :<br>Ak Bagi PNS yang memangku jabatan fungsional tertentu</td></tr></table>";
	$content.="";
	ob_end_clean();
	// conversion HTML => PDF
	try
	{
		$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('L', 'Legal','fr', false, 'ISO-8859-15',array(6, 6, 6, 6));
		$html2pdf->setDefaultFont('Times');
		$html2pdf->writeHTML($content, isset($_GET['vuehtml']));
		$html2pdf->Output($filename);
	}
	catch(HTML2PDF_exception $e) { echo $e; }
?>