Help with old Articles block

Regular Joined: Jun 30, 2003 Posts: 81

Hi all, I need some help editing old articles block, I would like for it too show like the last 5 days news was posted, everytime I post news, that block grows and grows, Is there a way to make it show only a certain number of days, here is the code of my block, Thank-you for your time:)

<?php

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if (eregi("block-Old_Articles.php", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) {
Header("Location: index.php");
die();
}

global $locale, $oldnum, $storynum, $storyhome, $cookie, $categories, $cat, $prefix, $multilingual, $currentlang, $db, $new_topic, $user_news;

if ($multilingual == 1) {
if ($categories == 1) {
$querylang = "where catid='$cat' AND (alanguage='$currentlang' OR alanguage='')";
} else {
$querylang = "where (alanguage='$currentlang' OR alanguage='')";
if ($new_topic != 0) {
$querylang .= " AND topic='$new_topic'";
}
}
} else {
if ($categories == 1) {
$querylang = "where catid='$cat'";
} else {
$querylang = "";
if ($new_topic != 0) {
$querylang = "WHERE topic='$new_topic'";
}
}
}
if (isset($cookie[3]) AND $user_news == 1) {
$storynum = $cookie[3];
} else {
$storynum = $storyhome;
}
$boxstuff = "<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">";
$boxTitle = _PASTARTICLES;
$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, time, comments FROM ".$prefix."_stories $querylang ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT $storynum, $oldnum");
$vari = 0;

$r_options = "";
if (isset($cookie[4])) { $r_options .= "&mode=$cookie[4]"; }
if (isset($cookie[5])) { $r_options .= "&order=$cookie[5]"; }
if (isset($cookie[6])) { $r_options .= "&thold=$cookie[6]"; }

while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
$sid = intval($row['sid']);
$title = stripslashes($row['title']);
$time = $row['time'];
$comments = $row['comments'];
$see = 1;
setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);
ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2})", $time, $datetime2);
$datetime2 = strftime(""._DATESTRING2."", mktime($datetime2[4],$datetime2[5],$datetime2[6],$datetime2[2],$datetime2[3],$datetime2[1]));
$datetime2 = ucfirst($datetime2);
if ($articlecomm == 1) {
$comments = "($comments)";
} else {
$comments = "";
}
if($time2==$datetime2) {
$boxstuff .= "<tr><td valign=\"top\"><strong><big>·</big></strong></td><td> <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=$sid$r_options\">$title</a> $comments</td></tr>\n";
} else {
if($a=="") {
$boxstuff .= "<tr><td colspan=\"2\"><b>$datetime2</b></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><strong><big>·</big></strong></td><td> <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=$sid$r_options\">$title</a> $comments</td></tr>\n";
$time2 = $datetime2;
$a = 1;
} else {
$boxstuff .= "<tr><td colspan=\"2\"><b>$datetime2</b></td></tr><tr><td valign=\"top\"><strong><big>·</big></strong></td><td> <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=$sid$r_options\">$title</a> $comments</td></tr>\n";
$time2 = $datetime2;
}
}
$vari++;
if ($vari==$oldnum) {
if (isset($cookie[3])) {
$storynum = $cookie[3];
} else {
$storynum = $storyhome;
}
$min = $oldnum + $storynum;
$dummy = 1;
}
}

if ($dummy == 1 AND is_active(Stories_Archive)) {
$boxstuff .= "</table><br><a href=\"archive.html\"><b>"._OLDERARTICLES."</b></a>\n";
} else {
$boxstuff .= "</table>";
}

if ($see == 1) {
$content = $boxstuff;
}
$content .= "<br><center>[ <a href=\"news.html\">"._MORENEWS."</a> ]</center>";

?>

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:50 am

Change this line:

Code:

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, time, comments FROM ".$prefix."_stories $querylang ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT $storynum, $oldnum");

To This:

Code:

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, time, comments FROM ".$prefix."_stories $querylang ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 0,5");

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:51 am

Thanks man it worked Smile

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:20 pm

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:44 pm

If you want less than 10 articles in the block, you will have to edit the code -- such as per Nukeum66 instructions.

But if 10 articles in the block is ok, as an alternative to editing the code, you can also limit the number of articles in the Old Articles block via the admin pages. Specifically, there is an Stories in Old Articles Box: option within Web Site Configuration / Preferences [ example.com/admin.php?op=Configure ].