for my website i use this
Code:
<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$dbUser = 'db_user';
$dbPass = 'password';
$db = 'db_name';
mysql_connect("$host", "$dbUser", "$dbPass") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("$db") or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM vb3_event order by dateline DESC LIMIT 10" ) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
print "<a href='http://www.DOMAIN.COM/FORUM_ADDRESS/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=" . $row['eventid'] . "&c=2'>". $row['title'] . "</a><br>" ;
}
?>
this grabs the last events from the database, it does not use global.php
i find this works just as well