[bananalive]

Originally Posted by glowinggal

let me clarify - what i mean is that if I want to select one of the other authors as the actual author of the article even though I posted it - i can do that?

You will need a modification for that like this one

I want to let everyone comment but only want certain people the ability to be able to post articles to that area and no matter who posts the article change who the author displayed is based on who has author rights.

You can set forum permissions for being able to reply to topic and being able to post new threads per usergroup in the admincp under forum permissions.

also one more question - how about being able to display the newest items on a non-vbulletin/php page?

You will need to run a query of threads and then join that to posts table and limit it to number of results to display