I tried increasing the amount of headlines for 'Empty DB when reaches:' and 'Leave on DB:'

'Empty DB when reaches:' works ok with the new setting, but 'Leave on DB:' keeps reverting back to 5 headlines.

I there a combination needed for these settings?

I made the changes in index.php delnewsmany and leavenews

Do you mean that you changed the amount on "General Settings [Leave on DB:]" and doesn't work?

After changing it in admin/index.php I changed it in settings to the new higher amount but it does not save, it resets to 5

found why, its because you cannot set Leave on DB: to more than 99

Hmmm....why?

I still dont understand this
if I change this code to leave 1000 news 50,50. In admin settings when I set leave news to say 500 it saves it as the start amount 50 not 500

Yes this is correct.



$selectname is the name of the selector
$limit is the limit [the list/select will go till this value]
$val the value that must be selected when listing the whole list/select
$first is the first value from that list
$pas is the step or increment of the list

There are some requirements when you are playing with this function: $limit must be divided exactly by $first and also you should choose the $pas so at one point, $first incremented by $pas [one or many times] should reach to $limit [exactly], otherwise the loop will just go forever.

brain no good, still confused.
could you show me the math for

Means the limit/the maximum is set to 30 feeds[last feeds on each category!!!], $leavenews is probably on 10[meaning leaving in each category the last 10 feeds, when emptying the DB occurs], 5 is the first value from de list/select and 5 is the increment.
You will have on the list: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30<--limit

If you want toplay with the number of feeds when the empty operation will be triggereed you must to play with this one: make_select_opt("delnewsmany",2000,$delnewsmany,50,50)
here you have [50, 100, 150, 200, 250,...............1900, 1950, 2000]

I understand that bit but I wanted to change the amount of feeds to leave on DB.
Is it not possible? whenever I try 2500, 50,50 it fails but I think that should work.


this is why i dont understand

limit 30 first 5 inc 5
30/5=6

The number of feeds that remains in your DB depends on how many categories do you have.
If you have 7 categories and you have choosen to "Leave on DB" saying 10 "latest feeds (on each category)", when the DB will be emptyied will still remain 7 X 10 = 700 feeds[total]
If there is a[or more] category with less than 10 feeds inside than overall you'll have less then 700 feeds.

From the other selector [that one with the default 2000] you only can set the number of feeds that will trigger the deletion operation, that's all. You cannot set from there anything else. ["Empty DB when reaches: XXXX feeds"]

Found the problem,
It was because of the database field being set to tinyint so I changed it to smallint
Now 2500, 50,50 works

Which one?

leavenews