Trouble with MYSQL Syntax

[Megatron]

Hi guys, i'm following a tutorial on php/mysql and i'm attempting to input this sql code into a db in phpmyadmin

CREATE TABLE `databasename`.`cmsarticles` (
`ID` int(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment COMMENT 'The unique ID of the article',
`title` varchar(200) NULL COMMENT 'The article title',
`tagline` varchar(255) NULL COMMENT 'Short summary of the article',
`section` int(4) NULL DEFAULT 0 COMMENT 'The section of the article',
`thearticle` text NULL COMMENT 'The article itself',
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
);

The writer of the tutorial said a simple copy and paste just see the MYSQL db setup, but i have attempted to alter the code and remove some of the " ' " from the code and i keep getting erorr's. The error i get when i attemp to run that code is

You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'COMMENT 'The unique ID of the article', `title` varchar(200) NULL COMMENT 'The a

Any help is much appriciated.
MegaTron

[NogDog]

Not sure if this is the problem, but how about trying:

...
`ID` int(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY COMMENT 'The unique ID of the article',
...

[Megatron]

I have modified the code to this after according to your post

CREATE TABLE cmsarticles(
ID int( 6 ) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment PRIMARY KEY ,
title varchar( 200 ) NULL ,
tagline varchar( 255 ) NULL ,
section int( 4 ) NULL DEFAULT 0,
thearticle text NULL ,
)

i'm still getting "You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 1" as an error message thou

[NogDog]

The last comma (just before the closing parenthese) needs to be deleted.