vb.org Archive - Formatting carried over to non vb page?

Not sure if that is the wording but here goes.

I have a script that grabs the first post from the latest 3 threads and displays on a non vb page.

http://www.groundpilots.com/vb/print_news.phtml is what I'm talking about.

However, if you notice, it doesn't bring any of the formatting (like line breaks, colors, bold text, center) with it.

Does anyone know how I could achieve this? Also, it is only grabbing part of the post, how can I get it to grab all the text.

Here is most of the file is anyone can see where I need to change some of it.

Code:

require_once("./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.phtml");

$outxt=parse_bbcode2($ptext,"1","1","1","1","1");

$outxt=substr($outxt,0,350);



// This is optional. It strips out unecessary tags if you wish and leaves those specified behind

 $outxt = strip_tags($outxt, '<p>');

// This sql gets the title of the forum

$sql3 = "SELECT title FROM ".$dbprefix."forum WHERE forumid = \"$forumid\" LIMIT 1";

$sql_result3 = mysql_query($sql3, $connection) or die ("Could not execute query in second sql statement.");

$row3 = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result3);

$forumname = $row3["title"];

//EDIT the HTML OUTPUT HERE

$towrite .= '

<table class="newstext" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">

  <tr> 

    <td bgcolor="#2F3E49"><a href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$title.'</font></a></td>

    <td align="right" bgcolor="#2F3E49"><font color=#CCCCCC>Posted by</font> <a href="'.$forumspath.'/member.phtml?s=&amp;action=getinfo&amp;userid='.$postuserid.'"><b><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$postusername.'</font></b></a><font color=#CCCCCC> on <i>'.$dateposted.'</i></font></td>

  </tr>

  <tr> 

    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#232D35"><font color=#CCCCCC>'.$outxt.'</font></td>

  </tr>

  <tr bgcolor="#2F3E49"> 

    <td><a class=newsout href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$replycount.' '.$commenttext.'</font></a></td>

    <td align="right" bgcolor="#2F3E49"><a href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>Read Complete Article</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="'.$forumspath.'/newreply.phtml?do=newreply&t='.$threadid.'"><img src="'.$forumspath.'/tren_z/buttons/reply.gif" title="Post a reply to this article" border="0"></a></td>

  </tr>

</table><br>

';

// END HTML EDIT

}

}



echo $towrite;



echo '</body></html>';

}



writenews("27", "","3");

?>

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