I have a question, I have a static front page on a site (it's basically a portal where you can branch off to 3 different things). I would like it to look a little more dynamic by posting the first few lines of the latest blog post, and a list of say, the 5 last comments posts in the forum, on the front page. How would I do this??
there are a lot of ways to do it. personally I would use php to access the database of the blog and pull the info you want.
www.php.net can't be much more specific because I have no idea how the data is being stored. it'd generally involve 1) mysql functions-- connect to the db, grab the info, store the results in a variable 2) deal with the output using the previous variable