* Changed a few things to make development easier without breaking things
  to the outside world.  It's a first step towards improving the submission
  queue.

* More important (to the theme babies): instead of passing individual
  parameters I'm considering to pass an object.
    $theme->abstract($story->aid, $story->informant, $story->time,
     stripslashes($story->subject), stripslashes($story->abstract),
     stripslashes($story->comments), $story->category, $story->department,
     $morelink);
  would become:
    $theme->abstract($story);
  What do you guys think about pushing this trough?  It would be much better
  and would give extra `power' to the themes.

index.php

 <?PHP
 
 include "functions.inc";
-
-### Log valid referers:
-if (($url) && (strstr(getenv("HTTP_REFERER"), $url))) {
-  addRefer($url);
-}
-
 include "theme.inc";
-$theme->header();
 
-dbconnect();
+$theme->header();
 
 ### Initialize variables:
 $number = ($user->storynum) ? $user->storynum : 10;
 $date = ($date) ? $date : time();
 
 ### Perform query:
-$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM stories WHERE time <= $date ORDER BY sid DESC LIMIT $number");
+$result = db_query("SELECT * FROM stories WHERE status = 1 AND time <= $date ORDER BY sid DESC LIMIT $number");
 
 ### Display stories:
-while ($story = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
+while ($story = db_fetch_object($result)) {
   ### Compose more-link:
   $morelink = "[ ";
   if ($story->article) {
@@ -30,7 +23,7 @@
     $bytes = strlen($story->article);
     $morelink .= "\"><FONT COLOR=\"$theme->hlcolor2\"><B>read more</B></FONT></A> | $bytes bytes in body | "; 
   }
-  $query = mysql_query("SELECT sid FROM comments WHERE sid = $story->sid");
+  $query = db_query("SELECT sid FROM comments WHERE sid = $story->sid");
   if (!$query) { $count = 0; } else { $count = mysql_num_rows($query); }
   $morelink .= "<A HREF=\"article.php?sid=$story->sid";
   if (isset($user->umode)) { $morelink .= "&mode=$user->umode"; } else { $morelink .= "&mode=threaded"; }
@@ -42,8 +35,6 @@
   $theme->abstract($story->aid, $story->informant, $story->time, stripslashes($story->subject), stripslashes($story->abstract), stripslashes($story->comments), $story->category, $story->department, $morelink);
 }
 
-mysql_free_result($result);
-
 $theme->footer();
 
 ?>