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PHP Manual on Include():

If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using a URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper - see Appendix J for a list of protocols) instead of a local pathname. If the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables may be passed to the included file using a URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as including the file and having it inherit the parent file's variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script.

Warning
Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

<?php

/* This example assumes that www.example.com is configured to parse .php
 * files and not .txt files. Also, 'Works' here means that the variables
 * $foo and $bar are available within the included file. */

// Won't work; file.txt wasn't handled by www.example.com as PHP
include 'http://www.example.com/file.txt?foo=1&bar=2';

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

$foo = 1;
$bar = 2;
include 'file.txt';  // Works.
include 'file.php';  // Works.

?> 

I must be going blind. I can't see where you are going to get the header row (the blue row in Oxygen) from. Don't you need another list with just the column headers

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Is it easier to make the whole page "html only" and then add the CSS, or making it part by part as you want it with CSS? (I know it's probably different for different coders, but anyway :))

Complete and utter geekism.

From inside extern.php:

  INSTRUCTIONS

  This script is used to include information about your board from
  pages outside the forums and to syndicate news about recent
  discussions via RSS. The script can display a list of recent
  discussions (sorted by post time or last post time), a list of
  active users or a collection of general board statistics. The
  script can be called directly via an URL (for RSS), from a PHP
  include command or through the use of Server Side Includes (SSI).

  The scripts behaviour is controlled via variables supplied in the
  URL to the script. The different variables are: action (what to
  output), show (how many topics to display), forum (the ID of the
  forum to poll for topics) and type (output as HTML or RSS). The
  only mandatory variable is action. Possible/default values are:

    action: active (show most recently active topics) (HTML or RSS)
            new (show newest topics) (HTML or RSS)
            online (show users online) (HTML)
            stats (show board statistics) (HTML)

    show:   Any integer value between 1 and 50. This variables is
            ignored for RSS output. The default is 15.

    fid:    A forum ID. If ignored, topics from all guest-readable
            forums will be polled.

    type:   RSS. Anything else means HTML output.

  Here are some examples using PHP include().

    Show the 15 most recently active topics from all forums:
    include('http://host.com/forums/extern.php?action=active');

    Show the 10 newest topics from forum with ID=5:
    include('http://host.com/forums/extern.php?action=new&show=10&fid=5');

    Show users online:
    include('http://host.com/forums/extern.php?action=online');

    Show board statistics:
    include('http://host.com/forums/extern.php?action=stats');

  Here are some examples using SSI.

    Show the 5 newest topics from forum with ID=11:
    <!--#include virtual="forums/extern.php?action=new&show=5&fid=11" -->

    Show board statistics:
    <!--#include virtual="forums/extern.php?action=stats" -->

  And finally some examples using extern.php to output an RSS 0.91
  feed.

    Output the 15 most recently active topics:
    http://host.com/extern.php?action=active&type=RSS

    Output the 15 newest topics from forum with ID=2:
    http://host.com/extern.php?action=activ … &fid=2

  Below you will find some variables you can edit to tailor the
  scripts behaviour to your needs.

Louis wrote:

Ahhh. All the tables and font tags! <faints sound="thud" />

...We will be separating the php from the html in due course ...

Louis wrote:

This new off-topic post I'm writing right now would be another good reason for a Moderate Topic feature ;)

Hehe, after enough times maybe Richard will implement it right away ;D