[kh99]

I think what you have should work, but the PreRegister calls aren't quite right, you need a => between the name and the variable:

PHP Code:

vB_Template::preRegister('COTW_SIDEMENU', array('cotw_sotw_sidemenu_nom' => $cotw_sotw_sidemenu_nom));
vB_Template::preRegister('COTW_SIDEMENU', array('cotw_sotw_sidemenu_vote' => $cotw_sotw_sidemenu_vote)); 


And just for the record, to make the variables global you'd just have to put

global $cotw_sotw_sidemenu_vote, $cotw_sotw_sidemenu_nom;

in your function code.