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I'm running Phpbb3 Version: 3.0.12. I'm trying to get all the topics from my "NEWS" Category posted on to the index.php of my Website. With the code I'm using I can get this working perfectly fine, in it's own .php file. But as soon as I add it into my index.php all of the PHP code below the forum code doesn't show. For example my layout is > Header > Login Function > Blank Space in the middle (Using this for the forum code) > 2 other PHP Scripts. As soon as I apply the forum code the 2 other PHP scripts and their markups completely dissapear from my website. The only way I can prevent this is by putting the Forum code at the bottom of my index.php but then it displays on the far left and I want it in the middle. I have tried putting it in it's own file and doing <?php include_once('external_page.php'); ?> but the same problem persists. Here is my forum code; <?php /* * home.php * Description: example file for displaying latest posts and topics * by battye (for phpBB.com MOD Team) * September 29, 2009 */ define('IN_PHPBB', true); $phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './forum/'; $phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1); include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx); include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.php'); include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.php'); // Start session management $user->session_begin(); $auth->acl($user->data); $user->setup('viewforum'); $search_limit = 7; $posts_ary = array( 'SELECT' => 'p.*, t.*, u.username, u.user_colour', 'FROM' => array( POSTS_TABLE => 'p', ), 'LEFT_JOIN' => array( array( 'FROM' => array(USERS_TABLE => 'u'), 'ON' => 'u.user_id = p.poster_id' ), array( 'FROM' => array(TOPICS_TABLE => 't'), 'ON' => 'p.topic_id = t.topic_id' ), ), 'WHERE' => ' t.topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . ' AND t.topic_approved = 1', 'ORDER_BY' => 'p.post_id DESC', ); $posts = $db->sql_build_query('SELECT', $posts_ary); $posts_result = $db->sql_query_limit($posts, $search_limit); while( $posts_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($posts_result) ) { $topic_title = $posts_row['topic_title']; $post_author = get_username_string('full', $posts_row['poster_id'], $posts_row['username'], $posts_row['user_colour']); $post_date = $user->format_date($posts_row['post_time']); $post_link = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $posts_row['post_id'] . "#p" . $posts_row['post_id']); $post_text = nl2br($posts_row['post_text']); $bbcode = new bbcode(base64_encode($bbcode_bitfield)); $bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($post_text, $posts_row['bbcode_uid'], $posts_row['bbcode_bitfield']); $post_text = smiley_text($post_text); $template->assign_block_vars('announcements', array( 'TOPIC_TITLE' => censor_text($topic_title), 'POST_AUTHOR' => $post_author, 'POST_DATE' => $post_date, 'POST_LINK' => $post_link, 'POST_TEXT' => censor_text($post_text), )); } page_header('External page'); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'external_body.html' )); page_footer(); ?> Thanks in advance.