Thank you, Rafe. This is just right and I'll use it. I've been looking for something like this as an alternative to the portal-with-everything hacks.

this may be the solution to my site, i have been using a portal and im thinking of creating a new layout and using somthig along these lines for a news page, that way my site is more unique then another vb portal page

Remember this is a beta release. I'l try and do some tidying up and add a few features / make things a bit more elegant in the next release (need to find some time).

This would be better as an addition to external.php rather than a seperate file.

External.php provides the functionality for XML,RSS, and the like for exactly this purpose.

The difference between what you are doing and that is you show the content of the posts whereas they show only thread titles.

Still it'd be more in line if it were an addition to external.php than a seperate file.

Perhaps so. However this is still a beta. In theory there's a lot of extra functionality I may add (depends on time etc.)

There's advantage to combing with external.php but there are also advantages in install terms of just uploading one new file.

Maybe the best approach would be to call in external2.php to make it clear what it does?

Still thanks for your feedback.

Rafe

when i try and call this using the <?include ('newsout.php');?> I get the following error message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

any ideas?

I have the same problem?
any ideas what we can do?

I got a blank screen after following the instructions

I get enws...only thing is that I also get this at the end....

Fixed my own issue....I commented out these two lines from the code.