I've been steady digging through threads and can't seem to find one that makes sense to me. Most are very old, or don't exactly match what I'm trying to do. So, can someone please help a person with no kind of perl skills to do the following...

I'd like to add the 5 newest links, as well as the total link count of my database to a non-LinksSQL page. (it's actually my homepage that's coded in PHP). I was also wondering for future reference how I could change it to 5 most popular or 5 top rated links.

Can someone please lend a hand?

Many thanks for the help!