hook_nodecarousel?

Right, so, the hook_nodecarousel is invoked when you want to return your nodes as you've picked them.

The basic idea is that you put hook_nodecarousel in a module that you're writing, not the theme.

Let's say that you've created the module misc_module, which includes a misc_module.info and misc_module.module file, right? We're going to write a simple query that returns the most recent blog nodes for the 'test_nodecarousel' nodecarousel. (That's the nodecarousel name - since you can have multiple nodecarousels on a site, they have different names.) The misc_module.module file would contain:

/**
 * Implements hook_nodecarousel().
 */
function misc_module_nodecarousel($nodecarousel_name, $start_position, $number_of_nodes, $nid) {
  if ($node_carousel_name == 'test_nodecarousel') { // Is this the nodequeue I want to return nodes for?
    $nodes_result = array(); // This is my array for returning the nodes.
    $query = "SELECT nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = 'blog' AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.created DESC"; // This query gets me the items I'm looking for.
    $result = db_query_range($query, $start_position, $number_of_nodes); // Here I'm using $start_position and $number_of_nodes to get the correct point in the list
    while($row = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $node = node_load($result->nid);
      $nodes_result[] = $node;
    }
    return $nodes_result; // return the nodes.
  }
  return array();
}

Yes, if you were doing the most recent blog items, you would use the other settings, but I needed a simple example.

I am closing this issue, since Drupal 6 isn't supported anymore.