Can someone help me please.

[thelazynarakid]

Is there anyway I can have an external file that includes the five latest posts?
I would like to display the five latest posts on an HTML page. Is this possible?

Also, can I have the background colour of a specific category different from the rest (While viewing them on the home page)?

Thanks!

[Lynne]

You would have to do a query to get the five latest posts. If you wanted the five latest threads, you could turn on your external data provider and use javascript to get them.

You could put a condition in the template - something like:

<if condition="$forumid == 'x'">style="background:red"</if>

in the td tag. To find what template to look at modifying - vboptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > set to Yes . Then go back to your page and view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code. Sometimes the template is the one mentioned at the very top of the page source.

[thelazynarakid]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You would have to do a query to get the five latest posts. If you wanted the five latest threads, you could turn on your external data provider and use javascript to get them.

You could put a condition in the template - something like:

<if condition="$forumid == 'x'">style="background:red"</if>

in the td tag. To find what template to look at modifying - vboptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > set to Yes . Then go back to your page and view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code. Sometimes the template is the one mentioned at the very top of the page source.

Is there anyway I can get part of the post (the content) in, along with the title? Like, the first 30 words?
Thanks!

[Lynne]

See this - [HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS2 feed