simple integration query & ezboard migration

[holwebs]

Hi,

I currently run a travel website (using bespoke CMS) displaying travel content, paid adverts & affiliate stuff plus I run a separate travel forum on Ezboard. There are links between the 2 & the ezboard 'theme' reflects my web site design.

I've been thinking about hosting the forum myself for a while but the enforced move to yuku (from which I believe there is no conversion yet?) is pushing me to get moving.

So queries are:

1) I would like to 'integrate' the web site & forum so that I can

a) display stuff such as 'no of current visitors' & 'latest posts' from specific forums on relevant pages of the web site
b) display some of my advertising on the forum

I don't need to integrate databases & will probably run the forum on a separate server. I just want to attract visitors between the 2. Are there modules out there to do this? Or should I/can I use phpAdsNew on the forum to display the adverts?

2) re Ezboard migration, I've just found a post from someone asking about a script to map migrated member's posts to new vbulletin members & no-one replied. Does this have to be done manually?

Thank you.