PHP can be opened/closed anywhere within the html document though, as long as you specify your statements within a <?php?> tag.

Yes the person above me works within my company and his statement is true. :)

Please assist. Also, PHP Safe Mode is on I believe..if that has anything to do with it.

I'm sorry, but since you won't post the code, I'm not sure what else to suggest.

Lynne is talking in the context of vBulletin and its templating engine. vBulletin does not allow PHP in templates.

Dismounted, this page is not in vB...it's not in the forum directory at all, and isn't a vB template. :o It's just a page on the root directory of the site...that we want to protect so that only certain usergroups we specify can see it.

OK, I'll repeat what I said before. Those lines of code should go just after you include global.php - before you start spitting out any html.

Let me try (I'm another admin on the site)

We're using a CMS. We have a page that I wrote using PHP to pull out vB's ban info. When we try and include('./forum/global.php'), it breaks. The page stops executing and no output past the include() is printed. No error message is printed, as well.

I *think* it's either a file perm issue or open_basedir.

Neg on open_basedir.

Chdir'ing to our forums dir and requiring from there produces the same results.

I'm begining to lean toward a safe mode issue...

My guess is that vBulletin is conflicting with the CMS. There is probably some variables that are named the same, and therefore, it breaks.