[nfn]

Hi,

I've tested your page and the problem is since (somehow) it gets the default board name, and this mod is executed inside the online_location_unknown, this hook is never called.

This is not a problem of this modification. The problem might be with the path's of your file:

define('patch_crazy', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));

chdir("/home/myname/public_html/testvb");
require_once('./global.php');
chdir(patch_crazy);

I've tested you file in the same directory as the default vB pages removing all above stuff and just using:

require_once('./global.php');

and it works!

i have two external files similar to your's in the same place as vB files and these are working.