mini-hack member stats request?

[MogKnight]

I was wondering if anyone could make the following:

the default is like this

Members: 2,495, Threads: 9,963, Posts: 158,887
Welcome to our newest member, yomammy

and change it to something like this

Current Members: 2,495, Current Threads: 9,963, Current Posts: 158,887
Total Members: [total members registered ever], Total Threads: [total threads ever], Total Posts: [total posts ever]

Welcome to our newest member, yomammy

the idea behind it is this: we prune threads, and users, but we'd still like a record of the "totals." the total member count can be found by going to the newest member's profile and reading the number, but I have no idea how it'd be done for the "total posts" and "total threads"

if anyone could make this I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it :ermm:

[MogKnight]

I am trying to do one part of it myself but I am having trouble

I changed it to:

Current Members: $numbermembers, Total Members: $newuserid

but that outputs the number as "14969"

I'd like "14,969"

since I can't use php in templates (why can't I, anyway?) how would I achieve this?

also: does anyone have any sort of tutorial for beginner vb hacking? I could never really find one...