VB database pulls on nonvb pages

[TheCaver]

In 3.0.x, I used this code to pull calendar events...it no longer works in 3.5....Any ideas? I have several pages on my site broken for this same reason I suspect. Just not sure what changed :

PHP Code:

<?
$events = $DB_site->query("select * from event order by dateline DESC limit 3");

if ($DB_site->num_rows($events))
{
        while ($ev = $DB_site->fetch_array($events))
        {
             $news="";
             $new_date = vbdate('m-d-Y', $ev['dateline'], false, false);
             $news .= "<B>".$new_date."</B><BR>";
             $news .= $ev['title']."<BR>";

echo "<A class='text-9white' HREF=\"calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=$ev[eventid]&day=$new_date&c=1\">$news</A>";

        }
}

?>

THANKS !!!

JC