I've programmed something similar on another website in PHP - there the data is actually pulled from the forum database to be displayed on a dynamic web page.
So I'm not afraid of coding itself.
However, I want to limit the work I need to do when upgrading to a new version as much as possible. When I need to manually copy and paste 3 pieces of code every time I upgrade, I'll lose quite some time.
Now 3 pieces of code are not a problem, but I know myself. I'd start installing all kind of hacks and before you know it, I'd need to copy and paste 300 pieces of code
