Can someone please convert this header / footer to go in $footer??

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I still cannot figure out how to make my header and footer work as parsed code. Could someone please help me convert this header/ footer? I really do appreciate it!

HEADER

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FOOTER


<CENTER>

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<TBODY>

<TR BGCOLOR="#FFA500">

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And then what if I wanted to put say "date("x:x:x");" in the above footer? How would I go about adding that in?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer
:)
~Chris

[eva2000]

yeah the header and footer parsing is a real headache :(

i want to run phpads or a banner rotator on it and it doesn't work :(