How to Latest Forum Posts ~ HTML?

[paynem]

I look forward (with much gratitude) to any help you can offer as I struggle to place "Latest Forum Topics" onto an html page (not my forum home).

I had found a thread on vBulletin.com dated 2006 with instructions on how to add latest forum posts to an html page, but I cannot get it to work. Either I'm doing something wrong (which is certainly possible) or somehow the instructions don't apply to 3.6.x

Am I allowed to post code? If so, I'll be glad to post it.

If there's a different (read: easier) way for a non-programmer (me) to do this, I'm very interested.

Thank you,
Mike

[WhaLberg]

Let us see what you have.

[paynem]

This is the code offered in a thread (older thread) at vB.com. I have three forums, 3,4 &5 from which I want to pull 'latest forum posts' for a site's home page.

Thank you,
Mike

<td height="47" valign="top" bgcolor="#CDDBF5"><div align="center">
<!-- show latest active threads -->
<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><img src="../images/latest-forum-topics.gif" width="133" height="30"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="100%"> <div> <font color="#000000">
<script type="text/javascript" src="external.php?forumids=3,4,5&type=js"></></script>
<script language="" type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (var x in threads)
{
document.writeln("<a href=\"showthread.php?t="+threads[x].threadid+"\">"+threads[x].title+"</a> (Posted By: "+threads[x].poster+")<br />");
}
//-->
</script>
</font></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- show latest active threads -->
</table>
<br>
</div></td>

[Jelmertjee]

This would be pretty simple to do with php, I don't know why you need to use .html instead with that feed, if you want a .php solution I could post it here.

[paynem]

Thank you, Jelmertjee, for responding. Pardon my ignorance, but how would my html page differ as a php page?

Or would it affect my page? Would it only affect the column coded for pulling latest forum posts from vBulletin?

Thank you,
Mike