I am still having trouble finding out how to use a title in the dropdown box like “Select a page” as the documentation doesn’t cover this.

Ditto on that. Anyone? =)

Just follow the instructions I posted. I don’t know what else to say since I’m not that clever with PHP. Sorry. Are you sure you have added all the necessary db settings?

There’s a no longer supported plugin by Brandon Alexander that I did some modifications to so that it works in phphBB3.

Create a folder named wp-phpbb-files in your plugins and put this in a file named wp-phpbb.php:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: WP-phpBB
Plugin URI: http://yoda.gatewayy.net/
Description: This plugin gives you the recent posts in your phpBB
Version: .9
Author: Brandon Alexander
Author URI: http://yoda.gatewayy.net/
*/

function show_posts($limit = 5)
{
global $wpdb;
//Put your phpBB and wordpress database info here:
$WPDB = ""; //WP db name
$PHPBBDB = ""; //phpBB db name
$USERS_TABLE = "phpbb_users"; //phpbb user table
$TOPICS_TABLE = "phpbb_topics"; //phpbb topics table
$POSTS_TABLE = "phpbb_posts"; //phpbb posts table
$SITEURL = ""; //Forum URL with trailing /
	//Do not edit beyond this point
	$lastfpost = 0;
	$top5=array(-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1);
	$wpdb->select($PHPBBDB);
	$test = 0;
	$results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $POSTS_TABLE ORDER BY post_time DESC");

	if ($results)
	{
		foreach ($results as $post)
		{
			$user = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $USERS_TABLE WHERE user_id = $post->poster_id");
			$forum = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $TOPICS_TABLE WHERE forum_id = $post->forum_id");
			$topic = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $TOPICS_TABLE WHERE topic_id = $post->topic_id");
			$test = 0;
			for($i=0;$i<=$limit;$i++){
			if($topic->topic_id==$top5[$i]){ $test=1; }
			}
			if($user && $topic && $test==0)
			{
				$top5[$lastfpost]=$topic->topic_id;
				$lastfpost += 1;
				echo "<li><a href='" . $SITEURL . "/viewtopic.php?f=$post->forum_id&t=$post->topic_id'>";
				$nposts=$topic->topic_replies+1;
				echo "$topic->topic_title\n";
				echo "</a>\n";
				echo " at " . date("F j, Y - H:i", $post->post_time) . " \n";
				echo "($nposts)</li>\n";
				if($lastfpost == $limit){ break; }
			}
		}
	}

	$wpdb->select($WPDB);
}

?>

Don’t forget to edit in your correct db info and url.

Activate the plugin and then put this where you want it to show:

<?php show_posts("5"); ?>

Change the number here and in the plugin to control the number of posts.

You can see it live here: http://www.sporeev.com/

If anyone would feel like further enhancing this plugin I’d be thrilled. It would be cool to be able to exclude certain forums for example.