Get Latest Post?

[FrederickGeek8]

What is a good way, from your Blogging tutorial, to get the latest post and output it on a page (a preview of course)

[jacek]

Didn't I make a function to get the latest X posts ? Or the posts on a certain page, I think it was somethign like

function get_posts($page, $per_page);

if so they you can use this,

$latest = current(get_posts(1, 1));

to get the latest post. It's a slight misuse of the function, but probably what I would do

[FrederickGeek8]

I finally got around to this and, no. You did not make that function that way. You did make a get_posts function but that just got all the blog posts and summaries

[jacek]

Maybe it was in the Pagination video then ? Either way you could create a new function

function get_latest_post(){
    $sql = "SELECT `things` FROM `table` ORDER BY `post_id` DESC LIMIT 0, 1";
    
    /* More things go here.  */
}