the two tags was a cut and past problem. and yes i tried the other ideas you gave

i changed
eval("\$Homepage.php = \"".gettemplate("Homepage.php")."\";");
to
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('Homepage')."\");") ;

but i get the cgi header error
also i added this line into the phpinclude
include("Homepage.php");

I am a little fuzzy about how the templete and the php code interact

first this line
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('Homepage')."\");") ;
says to load the templete into the browser Right?

Second what does it mean when you get a header error? is it a linking problem or something like that?

The only thing I can think of is that your host may be running PHP as a CGI module. If that's the case then the normal solutions may not work. I don't know what to tell you. Sorry.

i am the host for this is there something that i forgot to set on the IIS protacals

right now i am running windows XP pro and i am using IIS 5. I am using two computers one for the actual board and for testing purposes. The cgi errors only happen on the test one and all the settings are the same. I think that the problem might be in the templete. can anyone show me how to make a very easy templete that loads up and has one simple command in it like showing the time.

i don't get anymore cgi errors just a blank page now