Including VB elements into external page, best way to do it ?

Here is the hack for showing the top posters on a page, im positive it can be edtited to show other things, I'll do that later , but for now its only top 10 posters:

<?php
require("path/to/global.php");

print("<table><tr><td colspan=\"2\">Top Posters</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Username</b></td><td><b>Posts</b></td></tr>");

$db_link = @mysql_pconnect("$dbservername", "$dbusername", "$dbpassword");
mysql_select_db ("$dbname", $db_link);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT posts, username FROM user ORDER BY user.posts DESC, user.username DESC LIMIT 0, 10");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
          {
          $username = $row["username"];
          $posts = $row["posts"];

          print("<tr><td>$username</td><td>$posts</td></tr>");
          }

print("</table>");

?>

You need to rename the page from .HTML (or whatever you have it as) to .PHP or this wont work! If you have SSI elements they may not work in .PHP pages (depending on how you have them set up) so you will need the script im posting later here to fix that.

snyx