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for my website i use this

<?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