On my front page
http://www.hearth.com
you will notice I pull some topics from my EE (1.x) forum…...
I use php to pull in a EE template.
The php is something like this:
<?php
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/eecategory/yourtemplate/');
echo $homepage;
?>
And the template you call from EE is something like this:
<table>
{exp:forum:topic_titles orderby="recent_post" sort="desc" limit="5" cache="yes" refresh="1"}
<tr>
<td><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://{thread_path=forums/viewthread}">{title}</a></font></td>
<td><font size="-2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> {last_post_relative_date} ago
</font>
</tr>
{/exp:forum:topic_titles}
</table>
I don’t think the Forum is documented - at least in past years we were not able to get such docs.