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Originally Posted by josh_krz

That article is great, could you elaborate more on using global.php please?

If you did nothing other than include the vbulletin global.php, you'd be able to use $vbulletin to do things like check if the user is logged in or which group they're in. There are a couple of issues: one is that the current directory needs to be the forum directory (the one global.php is in) before you include it, so if your script is in another directory you need to chdir() to the vb directory first. Also, the user will only appear as logged in if the vb cookies are sent, so if your script is outside the vb directory, the vb cookie path needs to be set to '/' or else it will always look like the user is a guest.

So like, when I include that file, do I just use the template variables as normal or is there a different way of using them?

I'm not quite sure I follow. I guess it depends on which variables you want. They may be available just by including global.php, or you might need to find the code that calculates them. I'm also not sure if you mean you want to use templates, or if you just want the info in the variables. If you want to use templates, you probably should just use what's shown in that article as a guide.