Re: html to php help

John schrieb:
Hello,


I have a html message board / forums and would like to take the last
message posted and put it on the front of my website somehow. Does
anyone know of a program that would do this automatically?



Question: What is an "html message board"? Surely the server side is powered with PHP or CGI? Where are the posts stored?

I've done something this before with a message board that ran on another site and that didn't have a newsfeed (I wrote something that scraped the posts and returned an RSS feed). I don't recommend this if there is any other option.

In your case, look first at what the supplier of your board software has to offer - possibly there is already a way to export an RSS newsfeed. It's very easy to use such a newsfeed to put the posts on your front page.

The second option is to fetch the posts directly from the database (if one exists - I know some forums that use flat files, and maybe that's what you mean by "html").

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CB
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