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+<?php
+    session_start();
+    require 'db_connection.php';
+?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+    <head>
+        <title>FriendBook Messages</title>
+        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <style>
+            body {
+                background-color: #3B5998;
+                color: white;
+            }
+        </style>
+        <?php
+            try{
+                echo '<pre>';
+                echo "messageID\tdate\t\tsender\trecipient\tmessage\n\n";
+                $sql_select = "SELECT messageID, date, sender, recipient, message";
+                $sql_from = "FROM messages";
+                $sql_where = "WHERE recipient='".$_SESSION["loggedInUser"]."' OR sender='".$_SESSION["loggedInUser"]."'";
+                $sql_order = "ORDER BY messageID";
+                $sql_statement = $sql_select." ".$sql_from." ".$sql_where." ".$sql_order;
+                foreach($db_connection->query($sql_statement) as $row){
+                    print $row['messageID']."\t\t";
+                    print $row['date']."\t";
+                    print $row['sender']."\t";
+                    print $row['recipient']."\t\t";
+                    print $row['message']."\n";
+                }
+                echo '</pre>';
+            }catch(PDOException $e){
+                echo "PDOException: ".$e->getMessage().PHP_EOL;
+            }catch(Exception $e){
+                echo "Exception: ".$e->getMessage().PHP_EOL;
+            }
+/*
+            echo '<h3>$GLOBALS</h3>';
+            echo '<pre>';
+            print_r($GLOBALS);
+            echo '</pre>';
+*/
+        ?>
+    </body>
+</html>
+<?php
+    $db_connection = null;
+?>
