[kh99]

Oh, right - there are issues includes global.php inside a function because the code assumes some variables are global. You can try declaring some variables as global before including global.php, like:

function userVB(){
    $fnCwd = getcwd();
    chdir(dirname(__file__).'/../../../');
global $vbulletin;
    include('global.php');
    echo '<plaintext>data: ';

unfortunately there are other global variables and I don't have a list of every variable that needs to be declared. You might be able to figure it out by trial and error, or maybe you can call get_defined_vars() before and after including global.php and see what the differences are, and add each new variable to your global statement.

BTW, sorry for the delay in getting back to you.