Parse error: parse error

[watkins]

Hi everyone,
i keep getting the following error in my simple script... any ideas?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/jbinternetdesign.com/www/bns/db/auth.php on line 20

<?
function checkauth(){
        $username = $_POST['username'];
        $password = $_POST['password'];

    $SQL = " SELECT username,password FROM users WHERE username = '$username'";
    $result = mysql_query($SQL) or die(mysql_error());

    $num = mysql_numrows($result);

    $i=0;
    while ($i < $num) {

            $db_pw=mysql_result($result,$i,"password");
            if($db_pw==$password){echo "good";}
            else{echo "bad";} 
            ++$i;
    }
?>

[drawmack]

you never ended the function with a }

[watkins]

blah! i am a moron 🙂 i was looking at the code to hard for a mistake in my query. Thanks for the help!