<php?
while ($comment = mysql_fetch_array($comments));
{
echo "<p class=\"viewcomment\">" . $comment['commentText'] . "<br />\n";

echo "Posted by: ";
if($comment['commentName'] == '') { echo "anonymous</p>";
}
elseif { ($comment['commentWeb'] == '' && $comment['commentName'] != '');
}
echo $comment['commentName'] . "</p>";
}
else { $url = $comment['commentWeb']; if (substr($url, 0, 7) != "http://")
{ $url = "http://" . $url;
}
echo "<a href=" . $url . "> . $comment['commentName']."</"a></'p>";
}
}
?>

and this one:

<php?
$monthnames = array ("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec");
if($archive = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT month(entryDate) AS month, year(entryDate) AS year, CONTC(year(entryDate),month(entryDate)) AS ym FROM tblEntries ORDER BY ym DESC"));
{
while ($dates = mysql_fetch_array($archive));
}
{
print "<li><a href=" archive.php? month=" . $dates['month'] . "&amp;year=" . $dates['year'] . "> . $monthnames[$dates['month']] . " - " . $dates['year'] . </"a></"li>";
}
mysql_close($conn);

?>

Can you tell us what sort of errors you are getting?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end on line 205
While there's no line 205

Is that all the code that appears on the page?

yes thats all

Where's your query and database connection for the first part of the script?

only in these sections it shows that here the error is, but i can't see what is wrong with the script. The rest works because those are tested snippets i used. And a database connection is just a simple script.