Hello to everyone!

I've spent quite a bit of time reading and trying to figure this out, but I'm stumped. So, here we go.

I've downloaded and installed Mambo-SMF Recent Topics Module v1.1. It's working just fine, but I'd like to make some changes.

When I open up the PHP file, I see that there's an excludeboards item mentioned, but I'm not 100% certain how to enter the appropriate information for the boards to be excluded.

Also, I'd like to modify it a bit to also include the first few characters (150 or so) of each message.

Even after MUCH reading, I just can't figure out how to do either of these. Can anyone steer me to the information or just tell me how to do it? Thanks!

Which ID's are you editing in which file?

If you can give some examples of what you're editing, I can (most likely) figure it out for my site.