Error fatal Plugin Random Posts

Good, I have this plugin to display older, I am number extablecido a sample of older posts.

But I get an error when trying to activate the plugin, the error is as follows.

Parse error: parse error, expectingT_OLD_FUNCTION’ or T_FUNCTION' orT_VAR’ or '}'' in c:\localhost\easyphp1-8\www\wordpress2.6.5_es\wp-content\plugins\random_posts.php on line 8

he code of the plugin random_posts.php is as follows.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Random Posts
*/

class RandomPost {

	private $ids = array();
	private $query;

	function __construct( $posts , $not = null ){

		global $wpdb, $tableposts;

		if ( ctype_digit( $not ) ){
			$this->query = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code> FROM <code>$tableposts</code> WHERE <code>ID</code>!= $not AND<code>post_status</code>= 'publish' " );
		}
		elseif ( is_null( $not ) ){
			$this->query = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code> FROM <code>$tableposts</code> WHERE <code>post_status</code>= 'publish' " );
		}
		define( "_MAX_" , count( $this->query ) );

		for ( $n = 0; $n < $posts; $n++ )
		{
			$this->ids[ $n ] = mt_rand( 0 , _MAX_ );
			if ( $n > 0 )
			{
				for ( $w = 0; $w < $n; $w++ )
				{
					if( $this->ids[ $n ] == $this->ids[ $w ] )
					{
						$n --;
						break;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public function the_link( $x )
	{
		$link = get_permalink( $this->query[ $this->ids[ $x ] ]->ID );
		$post = get_post( $this->query[ $this->ids[ $x ] ]->ID );
		$title = $post->post_title;
?>
	   <li><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"><?php echo $title; ?></a></li>
<?
	}
}

	function get_random_posts( $exclude , $num_posts = 15 ){
		if ( ctype_digit( $exclude ) )
			$post = new RandomPost( $num_posts , $exclude );
		else
			$post = new RandomPost( $num_posts );

		for ( $x = 0; $x < $num_posts; $x++ ) {
			$post->the_link( $x );
		}
		$post = null;
	}

?>