Main page hacks no longer work.. please read!

[JackG]

Hi guys.. I had these great hacks on my index page of my web site (not the forum main page).. 1) showed us who's online on the home page 2) showed us the latest 3 posts.. since the upgrade (vB2)....no longer works:

Goes like this in my index.php file (not in the forum directory):

<?php
chdir ("forum/");
require("whosonline.php");
chdir("../");
?>

<?php
require("posts.php");
?>

<?php
echo $loggedinusers;
?>

anyway.. posts.php showed me the latest 3 posts on my home page:

<?

$num_active = 3;
$num_chars = 75;

$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassw ord);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$querylatest="select * from thread where forumid='23' order by lastpost desc limit $num_active";

$resultlatest = mysql_query($querylatest,$db);

print("<center><table width=\"100%%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">");

while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) {

// Get Forum Infomation
$query_forum = "select * from forum where forumid='$latest_array[forumid]'";
$result_forum = mysql_query($query_forum,$db);
$forum_info_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_forum);

printf("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#35587B\"><b><font color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\">%s: %s</font></b></td></tr>",$forum_info_array["title"],$latest_array["title"]);

// split the date up a bit
$datestr1 = substr($latest_array["dateline"],0,10);
$datetime = substr($latest_array["dateline"],11,8);
printf ("<tr valign=\"top\"><td width=\"15%%\" bgcolor=\"#336699\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\"><b>%s</b><br>Updated: %s<br>Replies: %s</font></td>", $latest_array["postusername"], $datetime, $latest_array["replycount"]);

$querythread="select * from post where threadid='$latest_array[threadid]' order by dateline asc limit 1";

$result_thread_text= mysql_query($querythread,$db);

$result_thread_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_thread_text);
printf ("<td width=\"85%%\" bgcolor=\"#336699\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\" color=\"#336699\">%s</font><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\">Last Post By: %s<hr>%s...<br></font><a href=\"/forum/showthread.php?threadid=%s\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\">Click here for more</font></a></td></tr>",$result_thread_array["iconid"],$latest_array["lastposter"],substr(strip_tags($result_thread_array["pagetext"]),0,$num_chars),$latest_array["threadid"]);
printf ("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" width=\"100%%\"> </td></tr>");
}

printf ("</table>");

printf ("<p>");

printf ("<font face=\"Arial\"><br>");

printf ("<p align=\"left\"> <i><b><font size=\"3\">Top 3 Latest Posts:</i></b><font size=\"1\">ClubFreestyle.com takes no responsibilities for these public messages.");

$querylatest="select * from thread where forumid='1' or forumid='10' or forumid='11' or forumid='9' or forumid='12' or forumid='13' or forumid='14' order by lastpost desc limit $num_active";

$resultlatest = mysql_query($querylatest,$db);

print("<center><table width=\"100%%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">");

while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) {

// Get Forum Infomation
$query_forum = "select * from forum where forumid='$latest_array[forumid]'";
$result_forum = mysql_query($query_forum,$db);
$forum_info_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_forum);

printf("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#35587B\"><b><font color=\"#ffffff\" size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\">%s: %s</font></b></td></tr>",$forum_info_array["title"],$latest_array["title"]);

// split the date up a bit
$datestr1 = substr($latest_array["dateline"],0,10);
$datetime = substr($latest_array["dateline"],11,8);
printf ("<tr valign=\"top\"><td width=\"15%%\" bgcolor=\"#336699\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\"><b>%s</b><br>Updated: %s<br>Replies: %s</font></td>", $latest_array["postusername"], $datetime, $latest_array["replycount"]);

$querythread="select * from post where threadid='$latest_array[threadid]' order by dateline asc limit 1";

$result_thread_text= mysql_query($querythread,$db);

$result_thread_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_thread_text);
printf ("<td width=\"85%%\" bgcolor=\"#336699\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\" color=\"#336699\">%s</font><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\">Last Post By: %s<hr>%s...<br></font><a href=\"/forum/showthread.php?threadid=%s\"><font face=\"Verdana, ArialHelveticasans-serif\" size=\"1\">Click here for more</font></a></td></tr>",$result_thread_array["iconid"],$latest_array["lastposter"],substr(strip_tags($result_thread_array["pagetext"]),0,$num_chars),$latest_array["threadid"]);
printf ("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" width=\"100%%\"> </td></tr>");
}

printf ("</table>");
?>

But it dosent work anymore on vB 2..can someone help me to re-hack this?
I get a terrible database error..its ScArY :-)