Is it possible to pull out the thumbnails of the latest added images in a particular category of Wordpress and publish them on an external php page? Thanks
definitely. You just need to query the database and get the most recent posts according to your rules (date, post count, category etc) and then use regex to find the <img tags and extract the source of those images. Check the RSS - might be quicker to do it that way but I suspect querying the database directly will be more efficient.
I like the first idea. I can write a php code to pull in the complete posts but i dont know how to look for an find the images. Can you help me on that part? Thanks
Take a look at http://testbay.5nz.com/extract-images.php https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6590958/digitalpoint/extract-images.php based on my test wordpress install
That's still in the /wordpress/ folder. Correct? My flat php page is outside the Wordpress folder. Does that just change the include 'wp-config.php' part?
Yes, you just need to update the path. This should probably be a plugin if you are going to use the output within the WP site tho
As i think you have 2 options: 1 - Like said before, you can use MySQL query from WP database and then format your results 2 - Write external php script which you can integrate inside WP framework and use all functions, options, etc.. which have WP. But this way more difficult.