include() where you cant include()....

Ok, the people at the phpBB support boards are very unhelpful, so maybe someone here can help me work this problem out.

phpBB2 uses a template system, and you can't use php inside the template files, which is what you need to edit to change the look and layout of the board.

The board sits inside my layout, and my layout includes a banner rotator which is called with an include:

<? include "/path/to/ad.php" ?>

Is there a way to get around this? Maybe a javascript that can call the php file, or a javascript that can call a routine in another php file, that runs the banner code?

I want to make the board live, but I've got a big 468 x 60 hole in my layout. :rolleyes:

<.script language="php".>
code here
<./script.>

that should work.. its from the manual...

I've tried that and it didn't work. I can view the source and all I see is that code.

I don't know anything about templates, or else I could define my own variable {BANNER_ROTATE} from their template system (which I've tried and failed miserably).

well.. you might have to go for that template class thingy...

hmm... have it include() in a header?.. or edit how the template works?....

I have no idea on this.. Sorry

I ended up just downloading an upgraded version of my banner system, which has a simple <script language="javascript"></script> call. Made life easy.

cool then.. no more troubles

You could possible perfrom an eval() on the template file. You'd just have to find out where in the script it loads the template code into a variable and do an eval() on the variable. But it's probably too late. You could always use it for future stuff anyway.