<?php
# You will need to change these to reflect your actual wordpress database
$dbhost = 'localhost' // This will probably be 'localhost' on your server
$dbuser = 'username' // Your webhost will have given you this, and you will have used it in wordpress installation
$dbpass = 'password' // Your webhost will have given you this, and you will have used it in wordpress installation
$dbname = 'wordpress' // You will have decided this in wordpress installation
$dbprefix = 'wp_' // You will have decided this in wordpress installation

# Connect to the database system as a whole
$con = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql (check your host, username and password)');

# Using the connection from above, select the wordpress database
$con = mysql_select_db($dbname) or die ('Could not select database (are you sure the name is right?)');

# This query gets the 5 latest posts from the wordpress database
$qry = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ". $dbprefix ."posts ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 5");

# For each post from the query above...
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($qry))
{
	# ... do this:
	echo 'Post title: ' . $row['post_title'] . '<br />';
	echo 'Post excerpt: ' . $row['post_excerpt'] . '<br /><br />';
}
?>