Please don't snicker...

[shwing]

I'm not a coder, so please don't laugh at my question. Here goes...
On PHP pages, I'm able to include a sitewide header containing all absolute links like so:

<?php
            include("http://www.domain.com/header.php");
            ?>

Umm.. so I did this in VB's header section and it didn't work. Why not?

<!-- header -->
<a name="top"></a>
 
<?php
            include("http://www.domain.com/forum_header.php");
            ?>
 
<!-- /header -->
<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
$_phpinclude_output

*cowering*

thanks.

[conqsoft]

You can't use PHP in templates.

You can add PHP code in a plugin at the global_start hook that executes on every page. In that plugin code, pull your include file into a variable, and you can use that variable to display your output in a template.

[shwing]

Thank you much for the response and most of all for not laughing.