[XManuX]

Note that you can "easily" modify it to have the "best rated articles of this month"

1?) Add this in the SELECTed fields :

, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.ratingtotal

2?) Add this condition in your request to limit results to the current month (and year) :

AND (MONTH(FROM_UNIXTIME(".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate))=MONTH(NOW()) AND YEAR(FROM_UNIXTIME(".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate))=YEAR(NOW()))

3?) Replace the ORDER part :

ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit

with:

ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.ratingtotal DESC LIMIT $limit

4?) In the While (where all variables are initialized) :

$rating = $articleinfo['ratingtotal'];

5?) Add somewhere in the $output string definition:

<span class=\"cmsrating rating{$rating}\"></span>

Regards.