I accept just started application PHPBB for a accumulation of my sites and i was apprehensive how i would go about affairs a column from the account page on a seperate website (on aforementioned server) and announcement it in a General Account forum. the account arrangement is Ashnews amid here,
http://dev.ashwebstudio.com/products.phpand it posts news to a seperate mysql database for security reasons (on same server also)
it uses the table ashnews_news with the following inside the table,
id - (autonumber)
catid - (for each different website that has the news on it)
sticky - (whether or not its a sticky by using 1 or 0 default 0 for not)
postedby - (admin user logged into news engine)
title - (title)
text - (news body text)
date - (date posted)
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