with the RSS Reader block you can read feeds from any page the have a rss feed.

Fel

If you have PmxBlog installed, you can use the PmxBlogSSI.php to get articles in a php block.
In you forum root you find two examples how to use the PmxBlogSSI ... PmxBlogSSI_example.php and PmxBlogSSI_example.shtml

Fel

Feline:
Thanks for PortaMX..works great with my SMF 2.0 rc2 site.

I feel sort of embarassed to ask, but Im not much on php and continue to get parse errors attempting to get a block to read blog posts, so I know Im messing it up even with your examples.  Could you please post a working snipplet to get me on the right track?  Thx

Same here. Good to see someone else is interested in this as well. I don't mean to be a nuisance but I'm a novice at this stuff. Could someone provide a quick example?

Thx Feline for the response.

Im afraid that altho it may be clear for you and anyone other than us "php challenged" people...I just cant get the right code extracted from the html example files.  It seemed simple enough at first, but I know Im missing something. 
Id take just about any kind of function example right now.  My main objective however will be to show recent entries from my own blog..not sure at this time if there will be any other authors on my site other than myself.

The follow is a sample code to get n recent blog articles.
Put this in a php block...
include_once('PmxBlogSSI.php');
global $smcFunc, $user_info, $txt;

$maxarticles = 5; // max articles to show

if(AllowedToBlog('view'))
{
$result = array();
$req = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
SELECT c.ID, c.subject
FROM {db_prefix}pmxblog_content AS c
LEFT JOIN {db_prefix}members AS m ON (c.owner = m.id_member)
LEFT JOIN {db_prefix}pmxblog_manager AS a ON (c.owner = a.owner)
WHERE a.blogenabled > 0 AND a.bloglocked = 0 AND c.published = 1
AND (c.allow_view = 0
OR (c.allow_view = 1 AND {int:idmem} > 0)
OR (c.allow_view = 2 AND {string:s_idmem} IN (m.buddy_list))
OR (c.allow_view = 3 AND c.owner = {int:idmem})
OR (c.owner = {int:idmem}))
GROUP BY c.ID
ORDER BY c.date_created DESC
LIMIT {int:lim}',
array(
's_idmem' => (string) $user_info['id'],
'idmem' => $user_info['id'],
'lim' => $maxarticles,
)
);
if($smcFunc['db_num_rows']($req) > 0)
{
$i = 0;
while($row = $smcFunc['db_fetch_assoc']($req))
{
$result[$i] = array('id' => $row['ID'], 'subject' => $row['subject']);
$i++;
}
$smcFunc['db_free_result']($req);
}

// link requested?
if(isset($_REQUEST['blogcont']))
$artid = (int) $_REQUEST['blogcont'];
elseif(!empty($result))
$artid = $result[0]['id'];
else
{
echo '
'. $txt['PmxBlog_nothing_read'];
return;
}

// get the selected article data
$article = PmxBlogSSI_GetArticle($artid, '');
PmxBlogArticles_SSI_Out($article, $result, $artid);
}
That show as you see in the attached image.

Fel

Fel, this works great  but is there a way to make it show a teaser about 40-100 words long instead of the entire article? Thanks again!!

Thank you! Thank you!