I am going nuts cause this just wont work for me

This is what I tried pasting in as suggested and all it does when I call the $rank in the postbit template is add another <br> which I guess is the one after images should have been shown...

// --- vB Galaga Hack by TommyBoy
$RankNum = $userpostcount/10;
$rank = "";
while ($RankNum > 1) {
if ($RankNum > 5000) {
$rank = $rank . "<img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0>";
$RankNum -= 5000;
}
elseif ($RankNum > 2500) {
$rank = $rank . "<img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"$images/star.gif\" border=0>";
$RankNum -= 2500;
}
elseif ($RankNum > 2000) {
$rank = $rank . "<img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0>";
$RankNum -= 2000;
}
elseif ($RankNum > 1500) {
$rank = $rank ."<img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0>";
$RankNum -= 1500;
}
elseif ($RankNum > 1000) {
$rank = $rank ."<img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> <img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0>";
$RankNum -= 1000;
}
elseif ($RankNum > 500) {
$rank = $rank ."<img src=\"images/star.gif\" border=0> ";
$RankNum -= 500;
}
else {
$rank = $rank ." ";
$RankNum--;
}
}
$rank = $rank . "<br>";
// --- vB Galaga Hack by TommyBoy

Please tell me what I am missing?

Jan

[Edited by Jan on 07-07-2000 at 11:07 AM]