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Parameter $num_recent

Expected type: Integer
Description: How many recent topics to display. Default is 8

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Parameter $exclude_boards

Expected type: Array of Integers
Description: An array of board IDs. If specified, topics from the specified board(s) will be excluded from the list. Defaults to an empty array.

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Parameter $include_boards

Expected type: Array of Integers
Description: An array of board IDs. If specified, only topics from the specified board(s) will be pulled.

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Parameter $output_method

Expected type: String
Description: Standard output_method variable. Defaults to 'echo'. If anything else, the function will return the array of data. Otherwise it will return a pre-formatted list.

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Return value

Expected type: Array
Description: Outputs the list if output_method is echo, otherwise returns an array of arrays with the following info (each array is a separate topic)

Array Elements
Key	Optional	Expected type	Description
board	no	Array	An array of information about this board - id (board ID), name (board name), href (URL to the board), link (HTML link to the board)
href	no	String	URL to the topic
link	no	String	HTML link to the topic
new	no	Boolean	Whether or not this is a new post
newtime	no	Integer	Not used by default, but can be used to determine what should be marked as read...
poster	no	Array	An array of information about the poster - id (user ID or 0 if they were a guest), name (display name or the name the guest entered), href (URL to the poster's profile, if applicable), link (HTML link to the profile, or just 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 topic's subject
time	no	String	The formatted date/time string indicating when the topic was started
timestamp	no	Integer	The raw timestamp indicating when the topic was started
topic	no	Integer	The topic ID