if ($category_id) {

                if ($config['show_sub_cats']) $get_cats = get_sub_cats($category_id);
                else $get_cats = $category_id;
        
        
    if ($config['allow_multi_category']) $where_category = "category regexp '[[::]]'";
    else {
            if ($config['show_sub_cats']) {
                    $get_cats = str_replace ( "|", "','", $get_cats );
                    $where_category = "category IN ('" . $get_cats . "')";
                } else $where_category = "category = '{$get_cats}'";
            
         }
}

$db->query( "SELECT id, title, date, alt_name,short_story, category, flag FROM " . PREFIX . "_post WHERE approve='1'  AND date >= '$this_month' - INTERVAL 12 MONTH AND date < '$this_month' ORDER BY rating DESC, comm_num DESC, news_read DESC, date DESC LIMIT 0,9" );

if ($where_category !='') $where_category ='AND '.$where_category;
    $db->query( "SELECT id, title, date, alt_name,short_story, category, flag FROM " . PREFIX . "_post WHERE approve='1' {$where_category} AND date >= '$this_month' - INTERVAL 12 MONTH AND date < '$this_month' ORDER BY rating DESC, comm_num DESC, news_read DESC, date DESC LIMIT 0,9" );

$topnews = dle_cache( "topnews", $config['skin'] );

$topnews = dle_cache( "topnews-".$category_id, $config['skin'] );

create_cache( "topnews", $topnews, $config['skin'] );

create_cache( "topnews-".$category_id, $topnews, $config['skin'] );