help with vbulletin select statement from a forum

[DionDev]

i wrote this myseld and it doesn't seem to be working correctly. it only shows me 2 of the 3 threads in the specified forum (4)

PHP Code:

<?
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbname = '*****';
$dbuser = '*****';
$dbpass = '*****';

mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname);

$sql = 'SELECT t.*, p.*, pp.*
        FROM thread AS t, post as p, postparsed as pp
        WHERE t.forumid = 4 AND p.postid = t.firstpostid AND p.postid = pp.postid
        ORDER BY t.firstpostid DESC 
        LIMIT 5';
$sqlresult = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
$count = mysql_num_rows($sqlresult);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sqlresult))
{
  $subject = $row['title'];
  $poster = $row['username'];
  $posterid = $row['userid'];
  $time = date("D, M j, Y", $row['dateline']);
  $replies = $row['replycount'];
  $id = $row['threadid'];
  $text = $row['pagetext_html'];
  
  if ($replies == 1)
    $replytext = 'reply';
  else
    $replytext = 'replies';
  
  echo "<b>$subject</b>";
  
  echo '<br>';
  
  echo '<font style="font-size: 8pt;">';
  echo "Posted by <a href=\"forums/member.php?u=$posterid\">$poster</a> on $time (<a href=\"forums/showthread.php?t=$id\">$replies $replytext</a>)";
  echo '</font>';
  
  echo '<br><br>';
  
  echo $text;
}
?>

any php/vbulletin gurus that can give me a hand? im just trying to display posts as news on my home page...the news forumid is 4...

[Opserty]

From your query remove: "AND p.postid = pp.postid" does it work then?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I would start by joining the secondary tables using a LEFT JOIN. If a post has not been parsed yet, then the whole post will not show using your query.