[karlm]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I just don't know what you mean by "call" a php file then... You can't do that from a template. You could do it from a plugin but again you're not "calling" a file. You can call a function in a file, but if you want to display output from the php file in a specific location you need to make a template for that file.

I may be using wrong terminology when i say "call"... I'm thinking old BASIC programming when you would call a subroutine.

Anyway, my idea is to:
1) breakdown forum into separate categories (e.g. religion, cars, games, etc.)

2) in the last post, 'refer to' a specific script.
2a) e.g. religion forum would refer to a script renamed as 'religion.php'
2b) cars forum would refer to a script renamed as 'cars.php'

3) the scripts within each above file would be the same, but refer to different text files.

4) the cars forum & script would then extract data from the text file for cars, which would ultimately show to the end-user as a affiliate image/link specific to cars.
4b) exactly the same as 4) but with religion context instead, so 'christian stuff' would show up in the religion forum (and other religions too).

so when a guest comes to my forum and visits the car section, they'll see links and/or images in the final post which will be pertinent to cars... if they swap over to the religion forum (or games or anything else) they will see the last post giving links/images relevant to those forums too.