Seen it.. Can't do it..

Greetings all,

I am new PhP and MySql. I have my site up and running at URL . It's just a hobby site for a game I play.

Here is what i want to do. I'm useing PhPBB (a very nice forum) What i would like to do is be able to have my users post in a certain area or thread in the PhPBB and have the front site pull that post from the database and post it as news. I've seen it done 1,000 times on other sites (at least i think that is what they are doing)..

I can't seem to find any information on how to do this. I've been trying to learn PhP as fast as i can in order to do this.. but i have figured it out yet.. any idea's on something i can read to learn more on this subject?

Thanks for your time,
DriveCrash

hopefully somebody there should be able to help you out better than I can.. ..but if not..
find a decent tutorial on MySQL (or whatever database you're using for phpBB) and PHP.

This is another thing that I plan on doing as well.. so if I get it worked out, I'll pass it on to you at that point.
and hey.. if you find out, let me know

okay.. one step closer.. the following sql query will provide the information we need. What this does is return the following information for the 5 most recent posts:

datetime | topic title | post title | poster's username | body text



I'm sure that there is a cleaner and faster way of doing this, but this works.

Are you sure you are not talking about CMS (content management systems) and stuff like PHPnuke? Go to www.hotscripts.com - -some of the stuff with link up with your php forum software.

I looked through the info on PhPBB and yes they have a few mods that kinda work, but this sql query works perfect! Thanks!