How to display news from a forum?

[Dave]

You could do something like:

PHP Code:

$query = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
    SELECT a.title, a.threadid, a.lastpost, a.postusername, b.pagetext
    FROM `thread` AS a
    INNER JOIN post AS b ON a.firstpostid = b.postid
    WHERE a.forumid = 2
    ORDER BY a.threadid DESC 
    LIMIT 0,5");

while($row = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($query))
{
    // $row contains the data.
} 


Where 2 would be your forum id.