<sigh>
...bupkis, nothing, nada...
I assume this must have something to do with the fact that I am trying to display the information on the same page as the forum -and so you'd be right about it be a linkage (or directory) problem.
I also have a main page built in Joomla, and it will display there ok.
-of course the head code for that page is:
<?php
chdir('./forum');
require_once('./vBExternal.php');
?>
because it's a different directory.
but I drop in the php output code on that page and it works just fine.
but nothin' doin' on
http://n81street.com/forum/index.php
hrmmm...