[kh99]

Originally Posted by forumrunt

UPDATED:
I tried

ob_start();
include('/includes/$pagenumber.php');
$includedphp = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Then renamed the banner.php to 24.php(the forumdisplay id) to no avail

I think that might work, but use double quotes, like

ob_start();
include("/includes/$pagenumber.php");
$includedphp = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Also you might need a '@' before 'include' to ignore the error if the file doesn't exist.