This little hack allows you to see random new images on the home page that fall within the cuttof limit, this makes the page look more active.
If there are no "new" images, it will display the newest images ordered by date.
At line 81 in index.php (with version 1.7), you will see the following code:
$num_new_images = $config['image_cells'];
$sql = "SELECT i.image_id, i.cat_id, i.user_id, i.image_name, i.image_description, i.image_keywords, i.image_date, i.image_active, i.image_media_file, i.image_thumb_file, i.image_download_url, i.image_allow_comments, i.image_comments, i.image_downloads, i.image_votes, i.image_rating, i.image_hits".$additional_sql.", c.cat_name".get_user_table_field(", u.", "user_name")."
FROM (".IMAGES_TABLE." i, ".CATEGORIES_TABLE." c)
LEFT JOIN ".USERS_TABLE." u ON (".get_user_table_field("u.", "user_id")." = i.user_id)
WHERE i.image_active = 1 AND c.cat_id = i.cat_id AND i.cat_id IN (".get_auth_cat_sql("auth_viewcat").")
ORDER BY i.image_date DESC
LIMIT $num_new_images";
If you replace this code with:
$new_cutoff = time() - 60 * 60 * 24 * $config['new_cutoff'];
$num_new_images = $config['image_cells'];
$sql = "SELECT IF(i.image_date >= $new_cutoff,RAND()+1,1) as random_no, i.image_id, i.cat_id, i.user_id, i.image_name, i.image_description, i.image_keywords, i.image_date, i.image_active, i.image_media_file, i.image_thumb_file, i.image_download_url, i.image_allow_comments, i.image_comments, i.image_downloads, i.image_votes, i.image_rating, i.image_hits".$additional_sql.", c.cat_name".get_user_table_field(", u.", "user_name")."
FROM (".IMAGES_TABLE." i, ".CATEGORIES_TABLE." c)
LEFT JOIN ".USERS_TABLE." u ON (".get_user_table_field("u.", "user_id")." = i.user_id)
WHERE i.image_active = 1 AND c.cat_id = i.cat_id AND i.cat_id IN (".get_auth_cat_sql("auth_viewcat").")
ORDER BY random_no DESC, i.image_date DESC
LIMIT $num_new_images";
this should do it for you.
Regards,
Kelvin