Problems with mysql_connect()

Hi, I'm having problems with this code (a simple exercise where i wanto to connect to sql server and get data from it and write that data in html) : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Exercise 23 - Using PHP with MySQL</title> </head> <body> <?php //Povezuje se s MySQL serverom $connection = mysql_connect('localhost','user','pass') or die ("Unable to connect to MySQL server"); //Odabira bazu podataka mysql_select_db("php1") or die ("Unable to select database"); //Pravi i zadaje upit $query = "SELECT * FROM items"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die ("Error in query: $query ." . mysql_error()); //Provjerava jeli li zapisi vraceni if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) { //Pravi html tablicu echo "<table width=100% cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 border=1>"; echo "<tr> <td> <b>ID</b> </td> <td> <b>Name</b> </td> <td> <b>Price</b> </td> </tr>"; //Prolazi kroz skup zapisa //ispisuje svako polje while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result) { echo "<tr>"; echo "<td>" . $row [0] ."</td>"; echo "<td>" . $row [1] ."</td>"; echo "<td>" . $row [2] ."</td>"; echo "</tr>"; } echo "</table>"; } else { //Ispisuje poruku o gresci echo "No rows found!"; } //Kad je obrada gotova oslobada skup rezultata mysql_free_result($result); //Prekida vezu s MySQL serverom mysql_close($connection); ?> </body> </html> the error is : "Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in C:\Program Files\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\test_folder\exercise23.php on line 41" I really dont know why is this error showing i looked for syntax errors but i think that there aren't any Thanks in advance! :) (P.S dont read the commnents they are croatian)