Glad someone familiar is still around lol, but I'm going to hold my ground on vb3 =P
I do agree the simplest way would be to directly edit the template and create conditions per forumid, but once / if I can achieve what I am trying to do then it would be even easier, and ALOT cleaner way of doing so. Basically the new header (per forum) would be stored in the variable $foruminfo[drc_head], and you would never need to touch the templates.
I do have it working properly already in that sense, where in each forums settings (forum manager) all I need to do is put my custom HTML for that forum, the only issue is I can't use conditionals, say... hide this link from this usergroup within that code.
I'm not sure how likely I would actually need to use a conditional within a forums header, but I'd like to have the ability to if the need arises, as my headers (per forum) will be pretty complex.
Main Header:
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Sample Forum Header:
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