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Let’s put that all together – this should work right inside any wordpress template:

<h2>Latest Forum Discussions</h2>

<ul>

<?php

global $wpdb;

$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";

$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>";

}

?>

</ul>