Hey everyone! I’ve been trying to get forum content from a phpbb forum to the homepage of my web-site. I have managed to get the content to my page, however I can’t figure out how to format the output. This is mostly due to my utter ignorance of php. The only way I managed to get the content to the web-site is from looking at some other work and after many hours managed to get what I want.
Below is the code for a file called newsfeed.php. I use a php include to get it to my index.php:
[php]
<?php
$search_limit = 5;
$posts_ary = array(
'SELECT' => 'p.*, t.*, u.username, u.user_colour',
'FROM' => array(
POSTS_TABLE => 'p',
),
'LEFT_JOIN' => array(
array(
'FROM' => array(USERS_TABLE => 'u'),
'ON' => 'u.user_id = p.poster_id'
),
array(
'FROM' => array(TOPICS_TABLE => 't'),
'ON' => 'p.topic_id = t.topic_id'
),
),
'WHERE' => $db->sql_in_set('t.forum_id', array_keys($auth->acl_getf('f_read', true))) . '
AND t.topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . '
AND t.topic_approved = 1',
'ORDER_BY' => 'p.post_id DESC',
);
$posts = $db->sql_build_query('SELECT', $posts_ary);
$posts_result = $db->sql_query_limit($posts, $search_limit);
while( $posts_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($posts_result) )
{
$topic_title = $posts_row['topic_title'];
$post_author = get_username_string('full', $posts_row['poster_id'], $posts_row['username'], $posts_row['user_colour']);
$post_date = $user->format_date($posts_row['post_time']);
$post_link = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $posts_row['post_id'] . "#p" . $posts_row['post_id']);
$post_text = nl2br($posts_row['post_text']);
$bbcode = new bbcode(base64_encode($bbcode_bitfield));
$bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($post_text, $posts_row['bbcode_uid'], $posts_row['bbcode_bitfield']);
$post_text = smiley_text($post_text);
$template->assign_block_vars('announcements', array(
'TOPIC_TITLE' => censor_text($topic_title),
'POST_AUTHOR' => $post_author,
'POST_DATE' => $post_date,
'POST_LINK' => $post_link,
'POST_TEXT' => censor_text($post_text),
));
}
$template->set_filenames(array(
'body' => 'external_body.html'
));
$template->display('body');
?>
[/php]
Basically what I’m trying to do is get some divs into the output so that I can style it with CSS. Could anyone help me get into the right direction?
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my question! 
