header and footer

[vls]

Is there any ability to include an header and an footer for the board because the board should look like my page design?

have you got any examples?
or are templates used :-( ?

[Chen]

Yes, templates are used.
You can simply edit your header and footer template to control all of the board.

See the Admin Panel here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo.html

and check out the templates section.

[vls]

But i need to include a PHP-file as header and footer. is there any ability?

[Chen]

That's possible with a bit hacking the global.php - although it can be done very easily.

[vls]

how difficult is this?

are any header() commands used because then the include can't be included...

[Chen]

Headers are sent, yes, but if you have PHP4 you can use Output Buffering, like this:

ob_start();
require("header.php");
$header = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

[JamesUS]

You can just copy that code that FireFly posted into your 'phpinclude' template if you want to include files. No code hacking is needed.