thirdpersonmatt

Well, it sounds like the reason you're getting the "Restricted Access Error" is because you're looking for a constant that hasn't been defined. You can't expect to use joomla's session/login information if you don't include all of the neccessary configuration/function files. I'm not exactly sure what exactly that entails but this should get you headed in the right direction: [code]// Set flag that this is a parent file define( '_VALID_MOS', 1 ); require( 'globals.php' ); require_once( 'configuration.php' ); require_once( 'includes/joomla.php' );[/code] You would place that at the top of your code. Make sure all the paths accurate as well.

[quote author=DrDre link=topic=112475.msg464326#msg464326 date=1162920015] I write my own :P [/quote] haha ....yea I guess in the long run that would be my choice too....the very long run. It would just take me many many moons to create a system as good as some of the ones you can just install and be done.

well I've been messing around with the site a bit and I changed the design. [url=http://www.osministries.com/]http://www.osministries.com/[/url] The front page is pretty much going to be the main theme for the rest of the site(all the other stuff that's linked isn't permanent but the style will be).

I've been using MDPro for a while, but now I'm looking around to see if there's anything better. I like MDPro and it has been good to me but it's just starting to get a little old.

Well I don't know if I'm understanding this fully or not but shouldn't you just be able to query to phpbb_posts table to get the most recent topic ids and post ids then use those to display the posts? Would look something like this: [code] $topic_query = mysql_query('SELECT post_id, topic_id FROM phpbb_posts ORDER BY post_id DESC LIMIT 0,3'); while($topic_row = mysql_fetch_array('$topic_query'){   $current_pid = $topic_row['post_id'];   $post_query = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts_text WHERE post_id = $current_pid');                 $post_info = mysql_fetch_object($post_query);       echo "<p>$post_info->post_subject</p>";       echo "<p>$post_info->post_text</p>"; } [/code] Then you could use whatever way you want to display the information. You'd have to decide how you want to set up the tables to output the data and everything like that. Anyway, I hope that code makes sense and works, it's late, and my PHP knowledge is kind of limited.

[quote author=neylitalo link=topic=112172.msg455235#msg455235 date=1161387083] [quote author=thirdpersonmatt link=topic=112172.msg455172#msg455172 date=1161376817] Well I was just looking around the web and found this site. [/quote] This leads me to believe that it's not your site at all, or that you're not responsible for developing it - can you explain? [/quote] Sorry about that, I meant I just found this site meaning www.phpfreaks.com the site I linked to is my own site.

thanks man, I totally agree with you on the forum stuff. I just gave up fine tuning the design because I knew I wasn't going to be keeping that forum system for long. I'll try messing with the latest forum thing and I'll probably end up just taking it off or displaying it in a different way. As far as the nav goes, I'm still trying to get it how I like it but I like your suggestion. My original design was a little different but for some reason I never could get the td:hover thing to work in any browser besides firefox so I'll probably be changing that(if anyone knows how to get the td:hover and div:hover stuff working with IE I would love the info lol). Anyway I'm still working on the design but it's not as much a priority right now as just getting the backend done first. Anyway I'll be updating the design in a little bit but I'll post an update when that happens.

Well I was just looking around the web and found this site. I just wanted to post this design up to see what everyone elses ideas were. [url=http://www.osministries.com]http://www.osministries.com[/url] **Notes: I'll be changing the layout slightly as this site is going to be turned into the "About" site until I finish the development of the real deal. I'm going to be stripping it out and only leaving the home, about, and possible the forum sections until I finish development. The photos section was just a test and will be taken down soon. Anyway let me know what you guys think if the overall layout and design.