Forum posts from MySQL to Page

Hello,

Here's the problem I am having. I am aware of extern.php, and what it does, etc. but so far I don't see how it can help me with what I want to do because of the output format. Basically, I want to get the posts from a specified forum and output them on another page (e.g. the news on punbb.org) I'm sure it's easy, and it's probably been answered before but for the life of me I cannot find it from searching, or browsing the community. Thanks, a lot, to anyone who can help or point me in the right direction.

Kind regards.