this is what i have now based on suggestion but still same error
Parse error: parse error in /home///.com/news.php on line 72
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Corvine Design - News Section</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="corvine.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#666666" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="95" valign="top"><table width="100%" height="95" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="101" height="95" rowspan="2"><img src="images/logo.gif" width="101" height="95"></td>
<td width="586" height="63"><img src="images/top.gif" width="586" height="63"></td>
<td><img src="images/extend.gif" width="100%" height="63"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="index.html"><img src="images/home1.gif" width="53" height="32" border="0"></a><a href="news.php"><img src="images/news2.gif" width="60" height="32" border="0"></a><a href="portfolio.html"><img src="images/port3.gif" width="85" height="32" border="0"></a><a href="contact.html"><img src="images/contact4.gif" width="78" height="32" border="0"></a><a href="links.html"><img src="images/link5.gif" width="61" height="32" border="0"></a><img src="images/buttonend.gif" width="249" height="32"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="98%" valign="top"><table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="top">
<td width="20"> </td>
<td width="120"><span class="heading">
<p> </p>
</span></td>
<td width="45"> </td>
<td><p class="heading">News:</p>
<?PHP
$conn = mysql_connect ("mysql.**.com", "", "**");
$db = mysql_select_db ("corvinedesign");
$query = "SELECT FROM news ORDER BY 'post_date' ASC LIMIT 3;";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
{
?>
<p class=corvine><? echo $row['post_date']; ?></p>
<p class=corvine><? echo $row['post_text']; ?></p>
<?
}
?>
</td>
<td width="30"> </td>
<td width="175" class="heading"><p>Image bank:</p>
<p> </p></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="35" valign="bottom"><table width="100%" height="35" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="75" height="30"><img src="images/bottom1.gif" width="75" height="30"></td>
<td width="612" height="30"><img src="images/bottom2.gif" width="612" height="30"></td>
<td height="30"><img src="images/bottomext.gif" width="100%" height="30"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="5"> </td>
<td height="5"><a href="index.html">home </a> <a href="news.php">news </a> <a href="portfolio.html">portfolio </a> <a href="contact.html">contact</a> <a href="links.html">links</a></td>
<td height="5"> </td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
