<?php
/*
Plugin Name: News Filter widget
Plugin URI: http://uservision.co.uk/
Description: Widget for displaying news archive in sidebar
Author: Mark Palmer
Version: 1
Author URI: http://markpalmer.org/
*/


class NewsFilterWidget extends WP_Widget
{
  function NewsFilterWidget()
  {
    $widget_ops = array('classname' => 'NewsFilterWidget', 'description' => 'Display News Filter Panel' );
    $this->WP_Widget('NewsFilterWidget', 'News Filter Panel', $widget_ops);
  }

  function form($instance)
  {
    $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => '' ) );
    $title = $instance['title'];
?>
<?php
  }

  function update($new_instance, $old_instance)
  {
    $instance = $old_instance;
    $instance['title'] = $new_instance['title'];
    return $instance;
  }

  function widget($args, $instance)
  {
    extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);

    echo $before_widget;
    $title = empty($instance['title']) ? ' ' : apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);

    if (!empty($title))
      echo "";
    ?>

    <h4>View by topic</h4>
    <ul>
        <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=1&use_desc_for_title=0&title_li=&child_of=1&exclude=42'); ?>
    </ul>
    <h4>View by year</h4>
    <ul>
        <?php wp_get_archives('type=yearly&cat=1'); ?>
    </ul>
    <?php echo $after_widget;

  }

}
add_action( 'widgets_init', create_function('', 'return register_widget("NewsFilterWidget");') );?>