[moleculo]

I tried that. It didn't work because the html output code from the PHP script interfered with the html in the custom template and the resulting page was FUBAR.

I actually have two custom PHP pages: the "standard" custom one (A) that calls the custom template, and the PHP script (B) that does all of the processing I need which also includes some HTML & Javascript output. (B) script is the one being loaded by global_start plug in that is also referenced in the custom template being called by php (A).

Either I'm not smart enough to do it the way you suggested, or it was just implemented wrong. Regardless, I couldn't get that to work.

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Here's a copy of the fairly standard PHP script (B) that's calling the custom template.

<?php

// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// ##################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
// change the line below to the actual filename without ".php" extention.
// the reason for using actual filename without extention as a value of this constant is to ensure uniqueness of the value throughout every PHP file of any given vBulletin installation.

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'mystuff'); 

// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
        // change the lines below to the list of actual templates used in the script
        'mystuff',
        
);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

// ########################## REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
require_once('./global.php');


// #################### HARD CODE JAVASCRIPT PATHS ########################
$headinclude = str_replace('clientscript', $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/clientscript', $headinclude);

// ########################################################################
// ######################### START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// ########################################################################


$navbits = array(); 
// change the line below to contain whatever you want to show in the navbar (title of your custom page)
$navbits[$parent] = 'My Stuff';

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');



// change the line below to contain the name of the actual main output template used in your script
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('mystuff') . '");');


?>