[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by RobDog888

You will want to query the thread table and pull out the "views" field.

Ex.

SELECT t.views AS views FROM thread WHERE threadid = 12345

I think he wants replies.. not views.

In any event, you'd want to include global.php on your external page and set the working dir. to your forum:

chdir('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('/path/to/your/forums/global.php');

Then just query the database like robdog mentioned, something like this:

$query = $db->query_first("SELECT * FROM thread WHERE threadid = 1234");

Then you can use $query[replycount] to output the number of replies in thread 1234. Obviously this is just a basic example and needs expanded upon, but this should give you a general idea.