thanks guys.. the discription you gave helps to know what is going on..

What I want to do is insert $sponsor in different templates.. i.e. footer - header and perhaps the home page.. not sure at the moment will be the final place.

but I will try a couple different things..

is there a list of all the hooks and where they relate to?

Thanks guys it worked!!

where did you end up putting the? what hook location?

also what was wrong before?

I used global_start for a hook, once when I did that it worked

entered the following for code

// eval('$sponsor = "' . fetch_template('sponsor') . '";'); //


created a template called sponsor

Then placed "$sponsor" without the "" in my header template

then it worked.. the key was the hook

thanks.. next trying to get my search box to look like the one on this site..

used plugin manager to install the plugin..

Something that I noticed.. it seems that "if"condition statements won't work in the sponsor template

<if condition="!$show['guest']">
</if>
<if condition="!$show['member']">
</if>

any of you guys run into this??


Figured out what was wrong... the "!" from above..

correct if statements

<if condition="$show['guest']">
</if>
<if condition="$show['member']">
</if>

! means the opposite so if $show['member'] is true then it will show gfor quests not members if you put !$show['member']

Ok that adds up now.. I thought I was losing it for about a 1/2 an hour.. look over other templates to make sure the code "if" statment was correct.. I will keep that in mind down the road..

BTW in what type of case would you use the opposite??

well you might code something up that only has $show['member'] and not $show['guest'] so in that case instead of $show['guest'] you can just put !$show['member']. You can also do conditionals like that for thread id's and forum id's. EG: <if condition="$forum['forumid'] != 10">. Then it will only show up the content if you are not in forum 10.