It's merely a syntax error, the exclusion of a closing parenthesis.
The line:
while($article=mysql_fetch_array($articles) {

Should read:
while($article=mysql_fetch_array($articles)) {


As for inserting into the table, Michael is correct. You can also use the phpMyAdmin interface to do the same.
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