Making a NEW article link

[wicked_chicken]

Some help would be great.

I'm trying to access the last 5 articles in my MYSQL database with PHP and I need code that will allow me to find the 5 most current articles (I have that code already.) but that will also calculate which is the newest (or which 2 are the newest) and will automatically add a small image NEW two spaces are the link to the article.

Right now, all I can do is list the 5 articles with a default NEW coded into each listing. I'm sure it's something to do with an IF ... THEN ... ELSE thing but I can't figure it out. I'd like to do this on an archive page too with say 25 links per page with the top 3 listed as NEW links.

Any help would be appreciated.

[planetsim]

well if your only getting 5 latest articles i do something like this

$count = 0;
while(/your while loop/)
{
if($count < 2)
echo"<img src=your_image.jpg>";
}
$count++;
}