Something

<?php
$forumlist = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query('SELECT * FROM `forum` LIMIT 0, 10'));
echo '<pre>';var_dump($forumlist);echo '</pre>';
?>

CREATE TABLE `forum` (
  `forumid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `forumtitle` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
  `forumdesc` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
  `displayorder` smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
  `threadcount` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `postcount` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `lastpost` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `lastthread` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
  `lastposter` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `parentid` smallint(6) NOT NULL default '-1',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`forumid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;

-- 
-- Dumping data for table `forum`
-- 

INSERT INTO `forum` VALUES (1, 'Category', '', 0, 0, 0, 0, '', '', -1);
INSERT INTO `forum` VALUES (2, 'Forum', 'Description sample', 0, 0, 0, 0, '', '', 1);
INSERT INTO `forum` VALUES (3, 'Category', '', 0, 0, 0, 0, '', '', -1);