[Lynne]

If the user has the permission to do so, there should be a Promote to Article link on the Blog entries.

As for the php article, I can give you my quick query that simply lists all the articles in one particle section. You can modify it to do what you want:

PHP Code:

$myquery2 =vB::$vbulletin->db->query_read_slave($myquery = "SELECT cms_nodeinfo.title AS title FROM cms_nodeinfo RIGHT JOIN cms_node ON (cms_node.nodeid=cms_nodeinfo.nodeid) WHERE cms_node.parentnode = 2 AND cms_node.contenttypeid = 18");
while ($myarts = vB::$vbulletin->db->fetch_array($myquery2))
        {
$output .= $myarts['title']."<br />";
} 


So, change parentnode to a different value for each section. (Also, verify that the contenttypeid for Articles should be 18 for your site.) That should at least get you started.