Thanks Webhost,
That solution would give me an output to my mainpage of all the articles in one particular forum, correct?
What I am wanting to do is have something that points to one specific thread in any forum. I am okay with having to manually enter the forum and threadids in the string of code which could do this. All of the news items on my site are manually entered by myself or one other, and what I was hoping was something that points to that thread from my home page (i.e. the "Discuss this Post" that I am already using) but also give the last poster and # of posts in that thread.
One way I was thinking of tackling this was that I could have an individual phunews.php (i.e. news1.php, news2.php, etc) for EACh article I post, but it seems that there would be a line of code that I could use for every post, and just manually type in the forumid and threadid specific to that news item that I have already created.
Hopefully I'm getting my needs across, but I feel like I'm talking in one huge circle.
Thanks!