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I am making a summary page as my index.php page for my site. On it will be links to the blog, to my photo gallery, to other things, etc.

I am going to summarize some of the content, such as most recent uploaded images, and last few posts to serendipity.

What would the best way to get these posts be? Use a serendipity function, access the database directly, or parse the RSS feed? Any ideas?

Using the serendipity functions would be the best way. There are many API functions for most stuff (Serendipity_fetchCOmments, serendipity_fetchEntries) which you could use. But apparently, you could also straightly access the Database, if you care.

Parsing the RSS feed IMHO contains too little information for a thorough start page and is too slow and too un-realtime

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks, that is kindof what I thought. I thought that the RSS feed would potentially be more stable than serendipity functions, but be a lot of overhead to have it generated and then just parsed again. I want something that closely resembles what I have in my blog, including the category images, so I will look at useing a function or two.

Thanks.