[vbmechanic]

Set variables:

PHP Code:

$newsforumid="6"; // Forum ID to pull the news from
$items="5"; // How many news threads to pull 


Connect to DB:

PHP Code:

$db_connection = mysql_connect("host","username","password") or die ("No DB Connection");
$db = mysql_select_db("dbname",$db_connection) or die ("Couldn't select DB"); 


Fetch the threads:

PHP Code:

$query="SELECT title,threadid,forumid,replycount,views,firstpostid,dateline  
        FROM thread 
        WHERE forumid='$newsforumid' 
        ORDER BY dateline DESC
        LIMIT 0,$items";

$newsitems=mysql_query($query,$db_connection);

while ($news=mysql_fetch_array($newsitems)) {

$query="SELECT pagetext,postid  
        FROM post 
        WHERE postid='$news[firstpostid]' 
        ";

    $posts=mysql_query($query,$db_connection);

    while ($post=mysql_fetch_array($posts)) { 


Export your HTML with the info.. voila! (oh yea add in stuff like parse_bbcode, etc)