I want to create my own portal (designed by myself)
how can I put info from my forum on it such as for example top 10 posters?

I know it has to be sth like this: $toptenposters but can sb help me bit more? thnx in advance

This howto has the PHP code you need.

As for the stats, you'll have to use queries to get this information. What I did a while back for my own custom portal is simply take a look at the code which is used in vBa CMPS, and see how that system gets all the data from the DB.

no I don't need no php code, I'm scripting it in html..
and I have the vBa CMPS installed but I'm not gonna use it, and damn :p thanks for the hint didn't think of that eighter

ah I see how this works, it links back to modules and phpfiles

How can I make a php content show up on a html page?
for example: "buddylist.php"

Well, you'll need some PHP code to be able to use variables and such ;).

I think you've got a bit of a wrong impression of how to create a portal. You'll need to code a "backend" in PHP which executes the queries to obtain the needed information, and than you can use that PHP code to call some HTML.

The coding of the HTML is only a fraction of what a good portal requires ;).

I know I need the php files ;-) but I don't need to adapt them they're fine, the only question I have is how to add the content of the phpfiles in a html (so the html file calls to the php files and executes them) :p hard to explain in english but you know what I mean I hope :p

An HTML file cannot call a PHP file. However, a PHP file can call a HTML file.

Or do you mean adding the variables defined in your PHP file to an HTML file?

You've got this backwards. HTML and PHP files are handled differently by the Web Server, based on the file extension. An HTML file is sent directly to the browser and interpreted/rendered THERE, so there is never any chance for any included PHP code to be called/run/etc.

A PHP file, though, is first run through an ISAPI filter... plain English: something else grabs the PHP and "runs it". What a PHP program does is PRODUCE html, which it hands back to the Web Server, which serves it up to the user.

So, you don't "add the content of the phpfiles in a html". Rather, you adjust your PHP programs to produce the desired HTML!

If you already have HTML that you like, and just have a DIV or some section of it which needs to have PHP-generated content, then simply INCLUDE the PHP code directly in the HTML file, demarcated property: <? ?>.

Then, save the entire thing with a .PHP extension. Your web server will now run it as a PHP program, which should give you want you want.

so I can just include the phpcodes in the html
for example

<DIV ALIGN=RIGHT>This is my text<br> <? php... /?> </DIV>

Yes indeed. To be able to do that you'll need to make a .php file ;).