It shouldn’t have to be on the same server. You do have to make this adjustment, though.

On line 10 of the first script where it says “localhost”:

mysql_connect(localhost, $db_username, $db_password);

If it’s on the same server, you use localhost. If not, enter the IP address of the DB server. If your client has a CPanel account, the left rail should list the IP address of the DB server.

Does this index.php file have to be actively in the same root folder (on the same server, in essence) in order for it to work? Should it not be able to find the base folder no matter of the php file in question being on a different server than the blog is? If you could help me unravel this, I’d much appreciate it.

SELECT DISTINCT wp_posts.post_title, wp_posts.post_content
FROM wp_posts, wp_term_relationships
WHERE wp_term_relationships.object_id = wp_posts.ID AND post_status = ‘private’ AND wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = 3
ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC

which tells this in dreamweaver:
{rsEvents.post_title}

{rsEvents.post_content}

to post all the blogs – I want to only post 5 blogs, and only the first 2 lines of each blog

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14096

The solution used is str_replace(). I’ve looked through his code, then looked up the php manual and found that chr(13).chr(10) represents a line break.

So after your line 15:
$blog_content = mysql_result($query_result, 0, “post_content”);

I’ve added this line:
$blog_content=str_replace(chr(13).chr(10), “”, $blog_content);

which replaces those two characters with a line break, subsequently properly formatting the post.

Hope this helps.