From cabc4b88acb08ec0da0bd98ef5baa6f5511029f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Currie <bill@taniwha.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:52:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] display up to 5 news items rather than 1 month's worth

---
 index.php    | 2 +-
 lib/news.php | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index e2700d8..2232ab1 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 			tableBoxHeader (featureBgColor, featureHeadColor);
 			tableTitle ('Latest News', 1, featureHeadColor);
 			need ("news");
-			$cached = latestNews ('1 month');
+			$cached = latestNews (5);
 			tableBoxFooter ();
 		?></TD>
 	</TR>
diff --git a/lib/news.php b/lib/news.php
index 9cee8dc..8935b88 100644
--- a/lib/news.php
+++ b/lib/news.php
@@ -163,19 +163,18 @@
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	function latestNews ($length)
+	function latestNews ($max)
 	{
 		if (sqlAvail) {
 			$conn = @mysql_pconnect (sqlHost, sqlUser, sqlPass);
 			if ($conn) {
 				$query = 'SELECT n_date, n_user, n_news FROM news_main' .
-						" WHERE n_date > DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL $length)" .
 						' ORDER BY n_date DESC';
 				$result = @mysql_db_query (sqlDB, $query, $conn);
 				if ($result) {
 					$numRows = @mysql_num_rows ($result);
 					if ($numRows) {
-						for ($i = 0 ; $i < $numRows ; $i++) {
+						for ($i = 0 ; $i < $numRows  && $i < $max; $i++) {
 							$news[$i] = mysql_fetch_array ($result);
 							echo newsEntry ($news[$i]);
 						}