[!--quoteo(post=367654:date=Apr 23 2006, 06:11 AM:name=redbullmarky)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(redbullmarky @ Apr 23 2006, 06:11 AM) [snapback]367654[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] i actually agree with skhale on this one to a big extent. there are also actually plenty of php based forums that you could use (phpbb, invision, etc) that would save you the trouble of trying to use two totally different technologies at the same time. i dont know what i'd think if i noticed a sites pages being fed to me in a mixture of php and asp. at the end of the day, if i've got you correctly, all we're talking about is showing the top forum posts on your front page. in this case, if you really do wanna keep a mixture of php and asp, the issue of the two languages 'talking' to eachother doesnt really even come into it. depending on the database technology your forum uses, it's just a matter of putting together a php script or two that will read directly from this database and output the results. apologies if i've missed the point, it just seems like a fairly simple workaround. [/quote] Thanks for the replies. I would like to keep the forum because our traffic is used to it and you know how people are about change. I'm fine with keeping them on two servers, but really wanted the "top ads" to show up on my homepage which is hosted on the windows server, written in asp. Wouldn't this just work like an "includes" and is it possible to pull the top ads from one site to show up on the other? If you know anyone that I might be able to contract for this- let me know. I'd love to get a quote and time frame!! Thanks again, K