Here is a bit of code that my set you a good path. I use it in a block myself, but I can see why you wouldn't be able to insert in in your home page template.

It's actually an adaptation from http://drupal.org/node/23232. In this case, the scripts displays the fist 80 characters (actually cuts after a complete word within the first 80 characters) of items with taxonomy ids 21 and 27.

<?php /** * Creates a list of node titles selected from multiple category terms * in descending chronological order (most recent first). * Titles link to full node. * * To change category terms to select from, * edit the $taxd_id numbers, retaining the "" marks. * * To change the number of node titles, edit the $list_no number. * * This snippet is tested with Drupal 4.6.x * */ $taxo_id = "26, 27"; $list_no =3; $query = "SELECT DISTINCT(n.nid), n.title, n.teaser, n.created FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {term_node} tn ON n.nid = tn.nid WHERE tn.tid in ($taxo_id) AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.created DESC LIMIT $list_no"; $sql = db_rewrite_sql($query); $result = db_query($sql); $items = array(); while ($anode = db_fetch_object($result)) { $blurb = strip_tags($anode->teaser); $i= 80; $blurb = substr($blurb , 0, $i); //take the first 80 characters while($i >= 0){ //cuts the blurb at the end of the last complete word if(!ereg(' $', $blurb)){ $i--; continue; } break; } $items[]= l("<span class="newsdate">" . format_date($anode->created, $type = 'custom', $format = 'd.m.y') . "</span><br />" . $anode->title . "<br />" . $blurb . "...<br /><span class="newsmore">MORE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>", "node/$anode->nid", array(), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE); }

if(count($items)) { return theme('item_list',$items); } ?>

Francis

bunset@dconsultia.es wrote:

Hi! I want to show last 4 news of my CCK type called "news" but in center of homepage, not in blocks, inside the node I mean, so I need a php code to show it, I was trying but nothing Anybody knows ?

Bye for now, David from Dconsultia.es

-----Mensaje original----- De: bunset@dconsultia.es [mailto:bunset@dconsultia.es] Enviado el: sábado, 17 de junio de 2006 4:28 Para: 'support@drupal.org' Asunto: showing last 4 news

Hi! I have created a new content type with CCK called "news", I am trying show in home page last 4 news but I don’t get the correct snippet for it. Anybody can guided me please? Regards,

David from dconsultia.es (Spain)

-----Mensaje original----- De: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] En nombre de support-request@drupal.org Enviado el: viernes, 16 de junio de 2006 14:00 Para: support@drupal.org Asunto: support Digest, Vol 42, Issue 21

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1. Drupal-Postgres-LDAP-FreeBSD (David King)
2. Re: theme search box button next to field (Franz Iberl)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:27:59 -0700 From: David King dking@ketralnis.com Subject: [support] Drupal-Postgres-LDAP-FreeBSD To: support@drupal.org Message-ID: D1FCD04C-F3B3-43FB-88E8-E120F65147CF@ketralnis.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

My name is David King, I am having trouble with LDAP users logging on

I have a very vanilla Drupal (v4.6.6) install, except that it is installed on Postgres, I have the LDAP authentication module installed, and it is installed on FreeBSD (all three are installed via the FreeBSD Ports system).

When I try to have an LDAP user log in, the user is created in the database, and looks like this:

$ psql drupal drupal=# select uid,name,data from users; uid | name | data -----+-------

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------

0 |       |
1 | admin | a:1:{s:5:"roles";a:1:{i:0;s:1:"2";}}
2 | dking | a:3:{s:5:"roles";a:1:{i:0;s:1:"2";}s: 

17:"ldap_authentified";b:1;s:7:"ldap_dn";s:38:"<censored=DN>";} (3 rows)

But the user is presented with a blank page after several seconds. In the log are dumped many (a hundred or so) Postgres errors of the following forms:

pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR: multiple assignments to same column "changed" in /usr/local/www/drupal/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 45.

query: UPDATE users SET uid = '2', name = 'dking', pass = '47c6b15aca93873f58522f26300d181d', mail = 'dking@<censored=domain>', mode = '0', sort = '0', threshold = '0', theme = '', signature = '', created = '1150424378', changed = '1150424378', status = '1', timezone = '', language = '', picture = '', init = '', data = 'a:3:{s: 5:"roles";a:1:{i:0;s:1:"2";}s:17:"ldap_authentified";b:1;s: 7:"ldap_dn";s:38:"<censored=dn>";}', data = 'a:3:{s:5:"roles";a:1:{i: 0;s:1:"2";}s:17:"ldap_authentified";b:1;s:7:"ldap_dn";s: 38:"<censored=dn>";}', changed = 1150424379 WHERE uid = 2 in /usr/ local/www/drupal/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 62.

The errors seem to alternate between those two.

I can't delete the user in the database, because if I go to Administer > Users > dking (the username) > Edit, I get the browser error that the server has closed the connection.

How can I go about troubleshooting/debugging this? Does anyone have any ideas?

Some more potentially useful information:

~% uname -a FreeBSD <> 5.3-RELEASE-p20 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p20 #2: Fri Sep 9 14:11:12 PDT 2005 root@<>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTERKERNEL i386

~% pkg_info | grep drupal drupal-4.6.6_2006031700 CMS that supports pgsql and mysql drupal-ldap_integration-4.6.0_20060117 LDAP user authentication for the Drupal CMS

~% psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 8.0.8

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:37:13 +0200 From: Franz Iberl f.iberl@amazonas-box.de Subject: Re: [support] theme search box button next to field To: support@drupal.org Message-ID: d56558947547037902b3c5585a99fb38@amazonas-box.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hello again,

...

I know the code is correct. It displays correctly in this node: http://www.animecards.org/node/74

ok, the button 'submit' which fits in the node obiously does not fit in the orange box at the left side.

...

#search .form-text { width: 8em; float: left }

try e.g. 5em ?

in a hurry Franz