Template issues
 

I'm trying to add this into my template...

<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://site.net/site/onlineplayers.php"); ?>
there are [..] online</font></p>
<br>

but.. i get this.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/01/2.png

It's not showing the text any way to do this? I'm trying to get the number from that page

it works fine if i just add that code into a .php file.

You can't add php code into a template. You can only run php code from a hook or from a php file.

Mind giving me an example?

How does that code work? I guess the number of players online is supposed to appear in place of [..], but I've never seen that before.

Anyway, in a plugin you'd do something like:

then in your template you'd use something like:
You'd have to change 'template' to the actual template you're putting that in, and the plugin "hook location" would depend on which template you're using (although you could use parse_templates to start with).