A very common question about phpBB is how to display recents posts or topics on a separate page, such as a website homepage. It can be very handy to do this, as it allows visitors to your website a chance to quickly see recent activity.
This blog post details how displaying a list of recent posts and topics externally can be done. There are a couple of different formats that are covered:

• The latest topics (including only from specified forums)
• The first post of the latest topics (including from specified forums)
• The latest posts from specified topics
• The latest posts from the entire forum

Everything displayed is subject to the users forum read permissions.
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