[webmaster74]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

The postbit is parsed inside a function outside the scope of a variable set at global_start. If you placed your plugin at postbit_display_complete it would work, but would waste server resources by including that file on every post.

thank you very much

I appreciate your help

your answer tells me that my original complaint on vbulletin.com that the documentation is lacking, was in fact correct. The documentation is not clear enough on including external php files.