Show forum stats on a non-vBulletin generated page

[eviljoker7075]

Hey, I am running wordpress and vBulletin on my site. I would like to include some of the stats from my vBulletin on pages generated by wordpress. Pretty much just the stuff that's in the 'What's Going On?' box, active users and total threads, posts and users. My question is how can I do it?

I can think of two solutions, but don't know how to code either of them...

1. Create a new vB page with just that info on it and call it in Wordpress via an iframe (not very graceful I know, but it'd get the job done)
2. Creating some sort of php file that I can include in my wordpress template (the preferred option)

Trouble is, I don't really know where to start with either of those... Can anyone help or suggest another solution?

Thanks