Invoking custom templates
 

I created a new template called "forums_menu".


Then in the FORUMHOME template, I added $forums_menu, between the $header and $navbar templates:


But it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing a step?

Have you added some php somewhere to fetch the template into $forums_menu ?

Add the following as a plugin using the forumhome_complete hook:

Got it working now. Thank you.

So basically the hooks are places in the vB PHP script where you can add custom PHP code?

Yep, exactly. :)

Let's say I have a new template, and I want to call the contents of the template directly from a PHP file.

For example, I have myscript.php, and I want to be able to see the contents of 'my_template' when I go to 'www.mysite.com/myscript.php

How would you go about doing that?

I tried:

but Got: