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I've done alot of searching. But can't find an answer. Is there any way to get news post on the front page of Joomla and have it use the CSS file like the portal.php. You can see what i have so far HERE. Thanks!

i guess if you only include global.php in you joomla index , you will be able use mybb css classes.

 require "./mybb/global.php"; 

regards

OK. This is what i'm using to get he news post.

<?php 
$forumpath = "./forums/"; // Path to your forums root directory (with trailing slash)
$fid = "2"; // The forum ID to pull the annoucements from
$limit = "30"; // The amount of annoucements to show
require $forumpath."inc/config.php";

function bb_code(&$string){
    $pattern = array(
        //[ul]
        '#\[list\](.*?)\[\/list\]#si',
        //[*]
        '#\[\*\](.*?)(\r\n|\r|\n|<br>|<br />|<br/>)#si',
        //[url]
        '#\[url\](.*?)\[\/(url)\]#si',
        //[url=XXX]
        '#\[url=(&quot;|"|\'|)(.*?)\\1\](.*?)\[\/url\]#si',       
        //[i],[u]
        '#\[u\](.*?)\[/u\]#si',
        '#\[i\](.*?)\[/i\]#si',
        //[b]
        '#\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]#si',
        //[img]
        '#\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]#si',
        // font size
        '#\[size=(&quot;|"|\'|)([0-9\+\-]+)\\1\](.*?)\[\/size\]#si',        '#(\r|\n|\r\n)#si');

    $replacement = array(
        //ul
        "\t\t<ul>$1</ul>\r\n",
        //li
        "\t\t\t<li>$1</li>\r\n",
        //a
        '<a href="$1">$1</a>',
        //a
        '<a href="$2">$3</a>',
        //i, u
        '<u>$1</u>',
        '<em>$1</em>',
        //b
        '<strong>$1</strong>',
        //img                             
        '<img src="$1" alt="User Posted Image" />',
        //size                  
        '<font size="\2">\3</font>',        "<br />");
    $string = preg_replace ($pattern, $replacement, stripslashes($string) );    $string = str_replace ('<br /><br />', "</p>\r\n\t\t<p>", $string);
}
mysql_select_db($config['database'], mysql_connect($config['hostname'], $config['username'], $config['password']));

$query = mysql_query("SELECT t.tid,t.subject,t.uid,t.username,t.dateline,t.replies,p.message,u.avatar FROM ".$config['table_prefix']."threads t LEFT JOIN ".$config['table_prefix']."posts p ON (t.tid = p.tid) LEFT JOIN ".$config['table_prefix']."users u ON (t.uid = u.uid) WHERE t.fid='".$fid."' AND t.visible='1' AND t.closed NOT LIKE 'moved|%' AND p.replyto='0' ORDER BY t.tid DESC LIMIT 0, ".$limit."") or die(mysql_error());
while ($news = mysql_fetch_array ($query)){
    $date = gmdate ("jS F Y", $news['dateline']);
    $time = gmdate ("h:i A", $news['dateline']);

    //Parse BBCode
    bb_code($news['message']);

    if($news['replies'] == "1"){
        $replytext = "reply";
    } else {
        $replytext = "replies";
    }

    if($news['avatar'] != ""){
        if(substr($news['avatar'], 0, 7) != "http://")
        {
            $url = $forumpath;
        }
        $avatarbit = "<img style='float:left; margin:10px;'src=\"".$url.$news['avatar']."\" alt=\"".$url.$news['avatar']."\" />\r\n\t\t";
    } else {
        $avatarbit = "";
    }

    echo "\t<div class=\"news\">\r\n\t\t";
    echo "<h2>".$news['subject']."</h2>\r\n\t\t";
    echo $avatarbit."<p>".$news['message']."</p>\r\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both;\"></div>\r\n\t";
	echo "<div class='details'>(<a href=\"".$forumpath."showthread.php?tid=".$news['tid']."\">".$news['replies']." ".$replytext." </a>) | Posted by <a href=\"".$forumpath."member.php?action=profile&amp;uid=".$news['uid']."\">".$news['username']."</a> on ".$date." at ".$time."</div>\r\n\t\t";
    echo "</div>\r\n";
	echo "____________________________________________";
}
?>

This is what i need to get the layout for the news.

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="tborder">
<table border="0" cellspacing="$theme[borderwidth]" cellpadding="$theme[tablespace]" width="100%">
<tr>
<td class="thead"><strong>$lang->News Headline </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="trow1" align="left">
  <p class="smalltext">news body</p>
  <p class="smalltext">(0 replies ) | Posted by RogueDOC on 25th April 2006 at 05:24 AM <a href="index.php"></a><br />
     </p></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<br />

Now how do i combine the two? Sorry i'm PHP illiterate.

below

require $forumpath."inc/config.php";

add

require "./path/global.php";

path will be the path to your board.

reagrds