How do I include an ad banner in my forum?

[Alkjwhin]

I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to put an ad banner into the footer of my forum. However, every time I try, it doesn't show up, or the HTML code shows up instead....what am I doing wrong? Please help!

[thetakerfan]

what is the code for the ad?
some times you need to use the advanced parsing option

[Alkjwhin]

Just a simple virutal include; looks like this:

<!--#include virtual="/fanstageads/ad_templ_us.shtml" -->

Any comments/help?

[Mike Sullivan]

Turn on PHP parsing and say:

$header = join("\n", file("/fanstageads/ad_templ_us.shtml"));