The vb5 Page Manager seems to be a joke as you can only include data in those little container boxes so that does not work to wrap the vb header and footer around a full featured app/mod with multiple scripts in a directory.
I have successfully made a simple cloned test page with the vb header footer echoing nothing but hello in the middle.
Placing this in say a cloned vb index,php minus the $class defines and then renamed to test.php will print what I need.
Code:
$templater = new vB5_Template('header');
$header = $templater->render();
$templater = new vB5_Template('footer');
$footer = $templater->render();
print "$header<br />HELLO<br />$footer";
The problem is generating the vb header and footer around an external application. vb5 stops you.
Any ideas.