ssi_recentTopics boggling my mind

[rotinhellorg]

I'm having a rather confusing problem with the recentTopics function.  I want to show the last ten headlines, but for someone reason it's only showing the first one.  Here's my code.

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<?php ssi_recentTopics($num_recent = 10, $exclude_boards = array('2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8'), $output_method = 'array');
  
  foreach ($array as $post)
{
echo '
  <table width="200" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr class="style4">
    <td align="left" valign="top"><strong><a href="', $post['href'], '"><font color="#FFFFFF">', $post['subject'], '</font></a></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="style4">
    <td align="left" valign="top">', $post['time'], '</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<hr align="center" width="100" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"/>';
}   
  ?>

[Rudolf]

I'm not aware of the possibility to do variable assignemnt in function calling the way you did. I mean that looks like declaring/prototyping the function.
I'd simply do
$my_array = ssi_recentTopics(10, array('2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8'), 'array');
foreach ($my_array as $post)

{

echo '
...';