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Ok, that's a step in the right directation! Yay!..

Right, I get

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first_slave() on a non-object in /home/cfpasta/domains/pasta.coldfront.net/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php on line 1310

The codes:

PHP Code:

    function getHTMLNews($trim=false)
    {

    $parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
    $bb2html = $parser->parse($bb2html, FORUM_ID_NEWS);
    //$bb2html = $parser->do_parse($bb2html);
    
    return $bb2html;
    
    } 


This is part of my news class. Called on when news is being displayed in template.

News object populated (plus the global.php include) by

PHP Code:

//Function to load up the news for homepage

function loadnews() {
    
    $cwd = getcwd();
    chdir('./forums/');
    require_once('./global.php');
    require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
          
    global $perfomance;
    
    $db = new mysql();
    $query = 'SELECT t.`threadid`, t.`title`, p.`username`, p.`pagetext`, p.`dateline`, d.`ccount` '
    . 'FROM vb_thread t INNER JOIN vb_post p ON t.threadid = p.threadid INNER JOIN '
    . '(SELECT count(*) as ccount, threadid FROM vb_post GROUP BY threadid) d ON ' 
    . 'd.threadid = t.threadid WHERE p.parentid = 0 and t.forumid = ' . FORUM_ID_NEWS . ' ' 
    . 'ORDER BY t.dateline desc LIMIT 0,10';
    
    //Grab news
    $result = $db->do_query($query, 'direct');
    $perfomance->add_milestone('SQL Query done');
    
    //If we have news, loop and create objects for each news
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
        $news = new news($row['threadid'], $row['title'], $row['pagetext'], 
                $row['ccount'] - 1, $row['username'], $row['dateline']); 
                //ccount - 1 (remove a count, as query counts the article as well as other comments.
            
            include('../template/default_news.php');
    }
    $perfomance->add_milestone('News Object populated/displayed');

    // get back
    chdir($cwd);
} 


FORUM_NEWS_ID is defined by a config.php included much earlier.

(To avoid any confusions, the templates are not part of the forums templates is in fact our own.)

~Added~
Just adding this while I'm thinking about, our host just compiled php with mysqli, is it just a simple edit of config from mysql to mysqli and vB will switch over or a bit more to it? Just thought to ask before doing. Kill two birds with one stone, so they say