Ok, I can do that for the poll. Is there something I can look at for a welcome box? Basically I want it to pull their Avatar, username and probably if they have a new private messages.
The last 5 news posts I think I know how to do that, but I'm not positive on all the variables. If I had to guess I would say it looks something like this:
PHP Code:
$query = "SELECT * from posttable WHERE forum = newsforum and "something to indicate its a new post and not a reply" limit 5"
Does that look right?