LOL
I'd already added it to $specialtemplates, as stated in my original post
Thank you very much for your help, the parse_templates hook worked a treat.
The problem I have now, is having to manually add 'cachestats' to the special templates array of every single page. Is there a way to maybe add to this array from within global.php or something?
Thanks again
Simon
aah..
answered my own question (wonders will never cease!)
I've added :
$specialtemplates[] = 'cachestats';
to the top of the global.php file which works. So will play around to find the right hook to put it in.
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additional :
It seems that there isn't a hook early enough in global.php
I'm really playing around in the dark here, so if anyone knows of a hook which runs early enough, could you please let me know?
Cheers
Simon