[Robert Basil]

Even if I could get the query to display the latest single post in each forum and then sort by forum name I would be happy.

Right now I can get it to display a single post from each forum and sort by forum, but it's displaying the oldest post in the forum and not the latest.

SELECT t.threadid, t.title, t.firstpostid, t.lastpost, f.title as forumtitle, t.replycount, t.postusername, t.postuserid, t.lastposter, t.dateline, t.views, p.pagetext, t.iconid, t.forumid
FROM thread t
LEFT JOIN post p ON p.postid = t.firstpostid
LEFT JOIN forum f ON f.forumid = t.forumid
WHERE t.forumid
IN ( 19, 116 )
AND t.open = '1'
AND t.visible = '1'
GROUP BY f.title
ORDER BY forumtitle DESC
LIMIT 0 , 3