[punchbowl]

You could've said $mumbojumbo for all the use it's doing me lol

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Ok after a lot of googling (your name came up a lot D!) and cross posting over at vb.com, it seems that unfortunately the "header template is parsed early in the page execution, before that information is available"

Jake suggested coding something in php. Instead Im thinking of replacing the $header call in SHOWTHREAD with a custom template depending on how many posts on the page.

Something like:

<if condition="($post[postcount]-1) % $GLOBALS[perpage] == 0">
     <if condition="($GLOBALS[totalposts] - $post[postcount]) > 5">$longheader
     <else />$header
     </if>
</if>

What do you think?! Madness? :erm:

Actually I've decided just to add another banner regardless of how many replies so I'm not going to bother with any of the above.

Thanks for the help - I learnt a bit anyway