How to use External Data Provider

[chriske]

Hi,

Are you using the External Data Provider?
can anyone give me an example of how you used this on your website?

I found a script to display the lastest posts on a html page.
So far so good, but how do you control the content that is displayed? (with css)

For instance I want the text displaying the poster to be smaller:
(Posted by: "+threads[x].poster+")

I hope someone can give me more information,

<!-- show latest active threads --> 
<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> 
<tbody> 
<tr> 
<td colspan="2"> 
<a href="search.php?do=getnew">Latest Active Threads</a> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</tbody> 
<tbody> 
<tr> 
  
<td width="100%"> 
  
<div> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="external.php?type=js"></script>  
<script language="" type="text/javascript"> 
<!-- 
for (var x in threads) 
{ 
document.writeln("<a href=\"showthread.php?t="+threads[x].threadid+"\">"+threads[x].title+"</a> (Posted By: "+threads[x].poster+")<br />"); 
} 
//--> 
</script></div> 
  
</td> 
</tr> 
</tbody> 
<!-- show latest active threads --> 
</table> 
<br />  

Script from: link