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Hi there!
I've tried searching for a solution to this problem, but I've had no luck. So, basically I'd like the latest topics in my PunBB forum to show up on the front page of my website. As far as I understand, this involves including extern.php, but since my host doesn't allow remote URL file access this won't work. Is there any way of getting around this?
Thanks.
Does your host allow cURL?
I'm not sure. If it does, how would I go about?
<?php
$cp = curl_init("http://terrainland.com/forum/extern.php?action=active&show=7");
curl_exec($cp);
?>replace the URL with the correct one for you, obviously
Thanks! That code worked on my local server, but sadly my host doesn't seem to allow cURL... :S
There isn't any other way? I'm using Wordpress on the rest of the site, if it makes any difference?
Not without modifying some code, no
Well I'm all for modifying code if it makes things work! 
You've been really helpful, and I'm thankful for that, but could you please guide me how to do the modifications?
Mmm, lets just hack around it this way
$old_get = $_GET;
$_GET = array();
// set all the get parameters you would normally put in the URL here
include PUN_ROOT.'extern.php';
$_GET = $old_get;Hmmm... What file would I edit? I'm sorry, but I know some PHP, but this is beyond me... 
This would replace your normal include
Sorry to bother you again, but I can't get it to work... Could you please give me an example of the complete code?
I'll give you an example
$old_get = $_GET;
$_GET = array();
$_GET['action'] = 'active';
include PUN_ROOT.'extern.php';
$_GET = $old_get;Thank you! I got it to work now. You're a life saver!
Oh my, I have another problem. The latest topics show up just fine, but non-English characters aren't displayed correctly. The character encoding of the page that I'm including the latest topics in is UTF-8, but the characters are still all messed up even if I change the charset to ISO-8859-1. The forum pages are in UTF-8, and all characters display correctly on them. What am I doing wrong?
I would need to see the page to diagnose any issue.
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