[TruckZMod]

The applet is now appearing as hoped for in the header on the site. It involved the following modifications

• Modified cron perl script to write updates to a "simple.txt" file.
  
• Added the following lines on global.php:
  
  // ###################### Import applet #######################
  // start snag applet
  $datadir = "/home/www/truckz.com/htdocs";
  $file = fopen("$datadir/simple.txt", "r");
  $simpletext = fread($file,8192);
  fclose($file);
  
• Added the following include under global on header.php --> $simpletext
  
• Applied the $simpletext reference where I wanted the applet to appear in the themeheader template.

That was it! You can check the regularly updating applet in action at http://truckz.com. Thanks for your comments and observations.