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Parameter $num_recent

Expected type: Integer
Description: The number of recent posts to fetch. Defaults to 8

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Parameter $exclude_boards

Expected type: Array of Integers
Description: An array of IDs for boards that you don't want to pull recent posts from

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Parameter $include_boards

Expected type: Array of Integers
Description: An array of IDs for boards that you want recent posts to be pulled from

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Parameter $output_method

Expected type: String
Description: Standard output_method - if not specified, the function will output a nice formatted list, otherwise it will return the array of information. If there are no recent posts, an empty array is returned.

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Return value

Expected type: Array
Description: Returns nothing if output_method is echo; otherwise returns an array of arrays with the following keys

Array Elements
Key	Optional	Expected type	Description
board	no	Array	An array of information about the board - id (board ID), name (board name), href (URL to the board) and link (HTML link to the board)
href	no	String	URL to the post
link	no	String	HTML link to the post
new	no	Boolean	Whether or not this is a new post
newTime	no	Integer	Used to determine which posts within the topic to mark read
poster	no	Array	An array of information about the poster - id (member ID or 0 if they're a guest), name (poster's name), href (URL to the poster's profile, if applicable), link (HTML link to the poster's profile, or the name if they're a guest)
short_subject	no	String	The first 22 characters of the subject with "..." appended, or the entire subject if it's less than 26 characters long
subject	no	String	The subject of this post
time	no	String	The formatted time/date string indicating when the post was made
timestamp	no	Integer	The raw timestamp indicating when the post was made
topic	no	Integer	The topic ID