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Fetches and returns information about a particular number of most recent posts (that you can see).

array getLastPosts (int $showlatestcount)

Expected type: Integer
Description: How many recent posts to fetch

Expected type: Array
Description: An array of arrays containing information about the recent posts. Each array contains the keys listed here.

Array Elements
Key	Optional	Expected type	Description
board	no	Array	An array of information about the board that this post is on. Keys are id (board ID), name (board name), href (URL to board) and link (HTML formatted link to the board)
href	no	String	The URL to this post
link	no	String	An HTML formatted link to the post
poster	no	Array	An array of information about the poster. Keys are id (member ID; 0 if they're a guest), name (user/poster name), href (URL to their profile if not a guest) and link (HTML formatted link to their profile if not a guest)
preview	no	String	A "preview" of the post - the first 128 characters (after bbcode, smileys and HTML are stripped) with "..." appended (or the entire text if the stripped-down version is less than 129 characters long)
short_subject	no	String	A shortened subject - 24 characters with "..." appended (or the subject itself if it's less than 25 characters long)
subject	no	String	The subject of the post
time	no	String	The time the post was made, formatted according to settings and with respect to time offsets
timestamp	no	Integer	The UNIX timestamp indicating when the post was made
topic	no	Integer	The ID of the topic this post is in