php my admin troubles

[mc_gherkin]

Hey guys

I'm very new to all this stuff and am having many troubles. i'm aiming to create an image gallery using mysql. i want it so that each time that you press the button on the site a new image appears in place of the old one. So firstly i'm stuck with creating an image database in php myadmin and then don't now how to link the button to the batabase.
any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

[mc_gherkin]

so i've resorted to just creating a quote generator with php and mysql and i've been using the following code

<?php

$user="username";
$password="password";
$database="databasename";
$connection=mysql_connect('localhost',$user,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

$query="SELECT quotes, FROM quots ORDER by rand() LIMIT 1";
$result=mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<p>" , ($row['entry_title']) , "</p> \n <p>" , nl2br($row['entry_text']) , "</p>";
}

mysql_free_result($result);
mysql_close();
?>

obviously using my own password, username and database name and in the end i come up with this

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'FROM quote ORDER by rand() LIMIT 1' at line 1

and i don't know how to go about fixing it.

any Ideas?