getting recent post on my main page

I have a forum and a main site, on the main site I have an iframe where I post the latest post from my forum at first it was not a problem every two days I would manually update the iframe but now I can't keep up.

Is there a way that it can be done automatically, I was told about rss mod so i downloaded the mod, but to be honest the instruction are confusion and my skills are zero and even if I did get the mod to work I have no clue how to use it for what i want to do.

Can anyone suggest how I can go about this or point me in the right direction or better yet how hard is it and should just abandon the whole idea.

Thanks

 

Does your forum have RSS enabled already? It shouldn't be that difficult even for someone unfamiliar with php.

 

create a cronjob scheduled from web hosting panel.

 

No rss I mentioned that I did not understand the instructions.

I have no clue what a cronjob is, i have zero skills when it comes to all of this stuff

 

you could just use a SELECT query along with some simple PHP, probably

 

you have to use cronjob for automatically calling the script

 

Using cron jobs here is bullshit, you could just do it with queries on the main page, you people are overcomplicating this

 

By the looks of things this is not an easy task

 

let me try a different approach, how would it be to embed my forum into my homepage