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+<?php
+
+require_once('../wp-config.php');
+
+if (!$showposts) {
+	if ($posts_per_page) {
+		$showposts=$posts_per_page;
+	} else {
+		$showposts=10;
+		$posts_per_page=$showposts;
+	}
+} else {
+	$posts_per_page = $showposts;
+}
+
+if ((!empty($poststart)) && (!empty($postend)) && ($poststart == $postend)) {
+	$p=$poststart;
+	$poststart=0;
+	$postend=0;
+}
+
+if (!$poststart) {
+	$poststart=0;
+	$postend=$showposts;
+}
+
+$nextXstart=$postend;
+$nextXend=$postend+$showposts;
+
+$previousXstart=($poststart-$showposts);
+$previousXend=$poststart;
+if ($previousXstart < 0) {
+	$previousXstart=0;
+	$previousXend=$showposts;
+}
+
+ob_start();
+?>
+
+<h2 id="posts">Posts</h2>
+<div class="wrap">
+<table width="100%">
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top" width="200">
+      Show posts:
+    </td>
+    <td>
+      <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
+        <tr>
+          <td colspan="2" align="center"><!-- show next/previous X posts -->
+            <form name="previousXposts" method="get" action="">
+<?php
+if ($previousXstart > 0) {
+?>
+              <input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="<?php echo $showposts; ?>" />
+              <input type="hidden" name="poststart" value="<?php echo $previousXstart; ?>" />
+              <input type="hidden" name="postend" value="<?php echo $previousXend; ?>" />
+              <input type="submit" name="submitprevious" class="search" value="< <?php echo $showposts ?>" />
+<?php
+}
+?>
+            </form>
+          </td>
+          <td>
+            <form name="nextXposts" method="get" action="">
+              <input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="<?php echo $showposts; ?>" />
+              <input type="hidden" name="poststart" value="<?php echo $nextXstart; ?>" />
+              <input type="hidden" name="postend" value="<?php echo $nextXend; ?>" />
+              <input type="submit" name="submitnext" class="search" value="<?php echo $showposts ?> >" />
+            </form>
+          </td>
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top" width="200"><!-- show X first/last posts -->
+      <form name="showXfirstlastposts" method="get" action="">
+        <input type="text" name="showposts" value="<?php echo $showposts ?>" style="width:40px;" /?>
+<?php
+if (!isset($order))
+  $order="DESC";
+$i = $order;
+if ($i == "DESC")
+ $besp_selected = "selected='selected'";
+?>
+        <select name="order">
+          <option value="DESC" <?php echo $besp_selected ?>>last posts</option>
+<?php
+$besp_selected = "";
+if ($i == "ASC")
+$besp_selected = "selected='selected'";
+?>
+          <option value="ASC" <?php echo $besp_selected?>>first posts</option>
+        </select>&nbsp;
+        <input type="submit" name="submitfirstlast" class="search" value="OK" />
+      </form>
+    </td>
+    <td valign="top"><!-- show post X to post X -->
+      <form name="showXfirstlastposts" method="get" action="">
+        <input type="text" name="poststart" value="<?php echo $poststart ?>" style="width:40px;" /?>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<input type="text" name="postend" value="<?php echo $postend ?>" style="width:40px;" /?>&nbsp;
+        <select name="order">
+<?php
+$besp_selected = "";
+$i = $order;
+if ($i == "DESC")
+  $besp_selected = "selected='selected'";
+?>
+          <option value="DESC" "<?php echo $besp_selected ?>">from the end</option>
+<?php
+$besp_selected = "";
+if ($i == "ASC")
+  $besp_selected = "selected='selected'";
+?>        <option value="ASC" "<?php echo $besp_selected ?>">from the start</option>
+        </select>&nbsp;
+        <input type="submit" name="submitXtoX" class="search" value="OK" />
+      </form>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<?php
+$posts_nav_bar = ob_get_contents();
+ob_end_clean();
+echo $posts_nav_bar;
+?>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<table width="100%">
+  <tr>
+	<td valign="top" width="33%">
+		<form name="searchform" action="b2edit.php" method="get">
+			<input type="hidden" name="a" value="s" />
+			<input onfocus="this.value='';" onblur="if (this.value=='') {this.value='search...';}" type="text" name="s" value="search..." size="7" style="width: 100px;" />
+			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="search" class="search" />
+		</form>
+	</td>
+    <td valign="top" width="33%" align="center">
+	  <form name="viewcat" action="b2edit.php" method="get">
+		<select name="cat" style="width:140px;">
+		<option value="all">All Categories</option>
+		<?php
+	$categories = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $tablecategories");
+	$querycount++;
+	$width = ($mode=="sidebar") ? "100%" : "170px";
+	foreach ($categories as $category) {
+		echo "<option value=\"".$category->cat_ID."\"";
+		if ($category->cat_ID == $postdata["Category"])
+			echo " selected='selected'";
+		echo ">".$category->cat_name."</option>";
+	}
+		?>
+		</select>
+		<input type="submit" name="submit" value="View" class="search" />
+	  </form>
+    </td>
+    <td valign="top" width="33%" align="right">
+    <form name="viewarc" action="b2edit.php" method="get">
+	<?php
+
+	if ($archive_mode == "monthly") {
+		echo "<select name=\"m\" style=\"width:120px;\">";
+		$querycount++;
+		$arc_result=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date), MONTH(post_date) FROM $tableposts ORDER BY post_date DESC",ARRAY_A);
+		foreach ($arc_result as $arc_row) {
+			$arc_year  = $arc_row["YEAR(post_date)"];
+			$arc_month = $arc_row["MONTH(post_date)"];
+			echo "<option value=\"$arc_year".zeroise($arc_month,2)."\">";
+			echo $month[zeroise($arc_month,2)]." $arc_year";
+			echo "</option>\n";
+		}
+	} elseif ($archive_mode == "daily") {
+		echo "<select name=\"d\" style=\"width:120px;\">";
+		$archive_day_date_format = "Y/m/d";
+		$querycount++;
+		$arc_result=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date), MONTH(post_date), DAYOFMONTH(post_date) FROM $tableposts ORDER BY post_date DESC", ARRAY_A);
+		foreach ($arc_result as $arc_row) {
+			$arc_year  = $arc_row["YEAR(post_date)"];
+			$arc_month = $arc_row["MONTH(post_date)"];
+			$arc_dayofmonth = $arc_row["DAYOFMONTH(post_date)"];
+			echo "<option value=\"$arc_year".zeroise($arc_month,2).zeroise($arc_dayofmonth,2)."\">";
+			echo mysql2date($archive_day_date_format, $arc_year.zeroise($arc_month,2).zeroise($arc_dayofmonth,2)." 00:00:00");
+			echo "</option>\n";
+		}
+	} elseif ($archive_mode == "weekly") {
+		echo "<select name=\"w\" style=\"width:120px;\">";
+		if (!isset($start_of_week)) {
+			$start_of_week = 1;
+		}
+		$archive_week_start_date_format = "Y/m/d";
+		$archive_week_end_date_format   = "Y/m/d";
+		$archive_week_separator = " - ";
+		$querycount++;
+		$arc_result=$wpdb->geT_results("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date), MONTH(post_date), DAYOFMONTH(post_date), WEEK(post_date) FROM $tableposts ORDER BY post_date DESC", ARRAY_A);
+		$arc_w_last = '';
+        foreach ($arc_result as $arc_row) {
+			$arc_year = $arc_row["YEAR(post_date)"];
+			$arc_w = $arc_row["WEEK(post_date)"];
+			if ($arc_w != $arc_w_last) {
+				$arc_w_last = $arc_w;
+				$arc_ymd = $arc_year."-".zeroise($arc_row["MONTH(post_date)"],2)."-" .zeroise($arc_row["DAYOFMONTH(post_date)"],2);
+				$arc_week = get_weekstartend($arc_ymd, $start_of_week);
+				$arc_week_start = date($archive_week_start_date_format, $arc_week['start']);
+				$arc_week_end = date($archive_week_end_date_format, $arc_week['end']);
+				echo "<option value=\"$arc_w\">";
+				echo $arc_week_start.$archive_week_separator.$arc_week_end;
+				echo "</option>\n";
+			}
+		}
+	} elseif ($archive_mode == "postbypost") {
+		echo '<input type="hidden" name="more" value="1" />';
+		echo '<select name="p" style="width:120px;">';
+        $querycount++;
+		$resultarc = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID,post_date,post_title FROM $tableposts ORDER BY post_date DESC");
+		foreach ($resultarc as $row) {
+			if ($row->post_date != "0000-00-00 00:00:00") {
+				echo "<option value=\"".$row->ID."\">";
+				if (strip_tags($row->post_title)) {
+					echo strip_tags(stripslashes($row->post_title));
+				} else {
+					echo $row->ID;
+				}
+				echo "</option>\n";
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	echo "</select>";
+	?>
+	    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="View" class="search" />
+      </form>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+	<?php
+	// these lines are b2's "motor", do not alter nor remove them
+	include($abspath.'blog.header.php');
+
+	if ($posts) {
+	foreach ($posts as $post) {
+        //$posts_per_page = 10;
+        start_b2(); ?>
+			<p>
+				<strong><?php the_time('Y/m/d @ H:i:s'); ?></strong> [ <a href="b2edit.php?p=<?php echo $id ?>&c=1"><?php comments_number('no comments', '1 comment', "% comments") ?></a>
+				<?php
+				if (($user_level > $authordata->user_level) or ($user_login == $authordata->user_login)) {
+				echo " - <a href='b2edit.php?action=edit&amp;post=$id";
+				if ($m)
+				echo "&m=$m";
+				echo "'>Edit</a>";
+				echo " - <a href='b2edit.php?action=delete&amp;post=$id' onclick=\"return confirm('You are about to delete this post \'".the_title('','',0)."\'\\n  \'Cancel\' to stop, \'OK\' to delete.')\">Delete</a> ";
+				}
+				if ('private' == $post->post_status) echo ' - <strong>Private</strong>';
+				?>
+				]
+				<br />
+				<font color="#999999"><b><a href="<?php permalink_single($siteurl.'/'.$blogfilename); ?>" title="permalink"><?php the_title() ?></a></b> by <b><?php the_author() ?> (<a href="javascript:profile(<?php the_author_ID() ?>)"><?php the_author_nickname() ?></a>)</b>, in <b><?php the_category() ?></b></font><br />
+				<?php permalink_anchor(); ?>
+				<?php
+				the_content();
+				?>
+			</p>
+				<?php
+
+				// comments
+				if (($withcomments) or ($c)) {
+
+					$comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = $id ORDER BY comment_date");
+					if ($comments) {
+					?>
+
+					<h3>Comments</h3>
+					<ol id="comments">
+						<?php
+						foreach ($comments as $comment) {
+						?>
+				
+					<!-- comment -->
+					<li>
+							<?php comment_date('Y/m/d') ?> @ <?php comment_time() ?> 
+							<?php 
+							if (($user_level > $authordata->user_level) or ($user_login == $authordata->user_login)) {
+								echo "[ <a href=\"b2edit.php?action=editcomment&amp;comment=".$comment->comment_ID."\">Edit</a>";
+								echo " - <a href=\"b2edit.php?action=deletecomment&amp;p=".$post->ID."&amp;comment=".$comment->comment_ID."\" onclick=\"return confirm('You are about to delete this comment by \'".$comment->comment_author."\'\\n  \'Cancel\' to stop, \'OK\' to delete.')\">Delete</a> ]";
+							} // end if any comments to show
+							?>
+						<br />
+						<strong><?php comment_author() ?> ( <?php comment_author_email_link() ?> / <?php comment_author_url_link() ?> )</strong> (IP: <?php comment_author_IP() ?>)
+							<?php comment_text() ?>
+					</li>
+					<!-- /comment -->
+
+						<?php //end of the loop, don't delete
+						} // end foreach
+					echo '</ol>';
+					}//end if comments
+					if ($comment_error)
+						echo "<p>Error: please fill the required fields (name & comment)</p>";
+					?>
+
+					<h3>Leave Comment</h3>
+
+
+					<!-- form to add a comment -->
+
+					<form action="<?php echo $siteurl.'/b2comments.post.php'?>" method="post">
+						<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
+						<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>" />
+						<input type="text" name="author" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $user_nickname ?>" size="20" tabindex="1" /><br />
+						<input type="text" name="email" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $user_email ?>" size="20" tabindex="2" /><br />
+						<input type="text" name="url" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $user_url ?>" size="20" tabindex="3" /><br />
+						<textarea cols="40" rows="4" name="comment" tabindex="4" class="textarea">comment</textarea><br />
+						<input type="submit" name="submit" class="buttonarea" value="ok" tabindex="5" />
+					</form>
+					<!-- /form -->
+
+					<?php // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head
+				}
+				?>
+			<br />
+
+	<?php
+
+	} // end b2 loop
+	
+	} else {
+
+		?>
+		<p>
+		<strong>No results found.</strong>
+		</p>
+		
+		<?php
+	} // end if ($posts)
+
+	?>
+
+<p>Go to: <a href="b2edit.php#top">Post/Edit</a> | <a href="b2edit.php#posts">Posts</a> | <a href="b2edit.php#comments">Comments</a></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<?php 
+// uncomment this to show the nav bar at the bottom as well
+// echo $posts_nav_bar; 
+?>
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