Display Announcements on the Index Page

[digitalje5u5]

I would like to create a module for the CMPS index page that will gather the last X announcements from a particular forum and display it.

Ideally, the module will check to see what usergroup the user is a member of and then fetch recent annoucements from a particular forum. and then display this information in "announcements" module. The problem is that I have never created a module before. Any help?

Thanks
/DJ

[Brian]

Are you trying to get announcements, or just threads? If you're just trying to display threads then why don't you use the News module?

[digitalje5u5]

Trying to get annoucement set via the ANNOUNCEMNTS MANAGer in the admincp