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+<?php
+	$theme = Array();
+	
+	// Theme name
+	$theme['name'] = 'Basic';
+	// Description (you can use Tinyboard markup here)
+	$theme['description'] = 'Extremely basic news listing for the homepage. It\'s suggested that you enable boardlinks for this theme.';
+	$theme['version'] = 'v0.9';
+	
+	// Theme configuration	
+	$theme['config'] = Array();
+	
+	$theme['config'][] = Array(
+		'title' => 'Title',
+		'name' => 'title',
+		'type' => 'text'
+	);
+	
+	$theme['config'][] = Array(
+		'title' => 'Slogan',
+		'name' => 'subtitle',
+		'type' => 'text'
+	);
+	
+	// Unique function name for building everything
+	$config['build_function'] = 'basic_build';
+	
+	function basic_build($settings) {
+		Basic::build($settings);
+	}
+	
+	// Wrap functions in a class so they don't interfere with normal Tinyboard operations
+	class Basic {
+		public static function build($settings) {
+			global $config;
+			
+			file_put_contents($config['dir']['home'] . $config['file_index'], Basic::homepage($settings));
+		}
+		
+		// Build news page
+		public static function homepage($settings) {
+			global $config;
+			
+			// HTML5
+			$body = '<!DOCTYPE html><html>'
+			. '<head>'
+				. '<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="' . $config['url_stylesheet'] . '"/>'
+				. '<title>' . $settings['title'] . '</title>'
+			. '</head><body>';
+			
+			$boardlist = createBoardlist();
+			$body .= '<div class="boardlist">' . $boardlist['top'] . '</div>';
+			
+			$body .= '<h1>' . $settings['title'] . '</h1>'
+				. '<div class="title">' . ($settings['subtitle'] ? utf8tohtml($settings['subtitle']) : '') . '</div>';
+			
+			$body .= '<div class="ban">';
+			
+			$query = query("SELECT * FROM `news` ORDER BY `time` DESC") or error(db_error());
+			if($query->rowCount() == 0) {
+				$body .= '<p style="text-align:center" class="unimportant">(No news to show.)</p>';
+			} else {
+				// List news
+				while($news = $query->fetch()) {
+					$body .= '<h2 id="' . $news['id'] . '">' .
+						($news['subject'] ?
+							$news['subject']
+						:
+							'<em>no subject</em>'
+						) .
+					'<span class="unimportant"> — by ' .
+						$news['name'] .
+					' at ' .
+						date($config['post_date'], $news['time']) .
+					'</span></h2><p>' . $news['body'] . '</p>';
+				}
+			}
+			
+			$body .= '</div>';
+			
+			// Finish page
+			$body .= '<hr/><p class="unimportant" style="margin-top:20px;text-align:center;">Powered by <a href="http://tinyboard.org/">Tinyboard</a></body></html>';
+			
+			return $body;
+		}
+	};
+	
+?>
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