[kh99]

Originally Posted by doob

I think this puts me on the right track, but I need some more help with the syntax. I think you are suggesting that I need to specifically tell vbulletin to load the global variables found in the new navbar code.

It's actually a php thing. Sometimes if you want to use variables that were defined somewhere else you have to tell it you want to use the "global" variables. But what you have is correct syntax, and at the hook global_start all your variables should be global, so that isn't your problem.

There's code in different places that makes the navbar work, so I figure that you're missing some of that in your external file. What does the file do exactly?