need help finishing Forum Home "include" hack
 

I'm in the last stages of including our site headlines on the side of our forum home page. The only problem is I can't get the template system to actually show the headlines. Here's what I have in index.php:
headlines.php is a file (which is in my php include dir) with the function getHeadlines() which returns the site news headlines. I know the function itself works fine because when I echo $showheadlines it's outputs the headlines as expected (just i the wrong place). In my header template I have
$showheadlines doesn't output anything at all. I can put some text there and it shows, and putting a vB var like $bbuserinfo[username] there works as expected as well, so it's not simply something like a malformed table or stray " or something.

I've never really hacked vB too much before, so I'm sure I'm missing something important. Any takers?

You need to template it :) If you look into the original vB files you'll see the method in which templates are called :)

sorry, I don't really know what that means. I see the "$templatesused" var there, and I modified that a few different ways the way I thought it would work, but I still can't make it happen. Any further enlightenment?