some ppl just made me aware that the center threads are using a .core extension instead of .php. I did a search and it comes up it other areas like calendar as well.

good thing for the search and replace.

There were two links (IIRC) that didn't had .core and not $ext/.php which were detailed quite a few pages back.

Is it possible to have includes in dynamic php pages?

I like this Index however the main reason im not wanting to install is because I desire a right side bar that is constant, like vbportal offers....is this possible?

Yes, the the dynamic page tutorial linked on the first post for details on howto use dynamic pages.

No, it would add too much strain on the server performing extra queries on every vB page to get the contents for the side blocks.

ya, i followed that. it is very general that tutorial tho. i got the includes working tho. but I can't post to it, so I don't know if that is a limitation with this or not?

What do you mean by "post to it"?

i have a form that needs to send values to that dynamic page.

I can't see why it wouldn't work provided A) your HTML is correct, B) your accessing the $_POST variables correctly and C) your not using any variables that maybe overwritten by vBindex.