Formatting carried over to non vb page?

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Not sure if that is the wording but here goes.

I have a script that grabs the first post from the latest 3 threads and displays on a non vb page.

http://www.groundpilots.com/vb/print_news.phtml is what I'm talking about.

However, if you notice, it doesn't bring any of the formatting (like line breaks, colors, bold text, center) with it.

Does anyone know how I could achieve this? Also, it is only grabbing part of the post, how can I get it to grab all the text.

Here is most of the file is anyone can see where I need to change some of it.

require_once("./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.phtml");
$outxt=parse_bbcode2($ptext,"1","1","1","1","1");
$outxt=substr($outxt,0,350);

// This is optional. It strips out unecessary tags if you wish and leaves those specified behind
 $outxt = strip_tags($outxt, '<p>');
// This sql gets the title of the forum
$sql3 = "SELECT title FROM ".$dbprefix."forum WHERE forumid = \"$forumid\" LIMIT 1";
$sql_result3 = mysql_query($sql3, $connection) or die ("Could not execute query in second sql statement.");
$row3 = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result3);
$forumname = $row3["title"];
//EDIT the HTML OUTPUT HERE
$towrite .= '
<table class="newstext" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
  <tr> 
    <td bgcolor="#2F3E49"><a href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$title.'</font></a></td>
    <td align="right" bgcolor="#2F3E49"><font color=#CCCCCC>Posted by</font> <a href="'.$forumspath.'/member.phtml?s=&amp;action=getinfo&amp;userid='.$postuserid.'"><b><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$postusername.'</font></b></a><font color=#CCCCCC> on <i>'.$dateposted.'</i></font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#232D35"><font color=#CCCCCC>'.$outxt.'</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="#2F3E49"> 
    <td><a class=newsout href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>'.$replycount.' '.$commenttext.'</font></a></td>
    <td align="right" bgcolor="#2F3E49"><a href="'.$forumspath.'/showthread.phtml?s=&amp;threadid='.$threadid.'"><font color=#FFFFFF>Read Complete Article</font></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="'.$forumspath.'/newreply.phtml?do=newreply&t='.$threadid.'"><img src="'.$forumspath.'/tren_z/buttons/reply.gif" title="Post a reply to this article" border="0"></a></td>
  </tr>
</table><br>
';
// END HTML EDIT
}
}

echo $towrite;

echo '</body></html>';
}

writenews("27", "","3");
?>