[Tigga]

I've had vBhome installed on my site for the last few months. I then modified the script a little (mostly just took out the news part) and used that to make a column on the left side of every page that shows a users info (or login box), online users, buddy list, latest topics, and etc. The majority of my pages are coded in HTML, so I just used ssi to include the PHP file and it worked great. Now I'm starting to code more and more of my site in PHP, but I'm starting to run into problems. I can't seem to use SSI anywhere in a PHP file, so I tried using the PHP include function to include that file. That worked for the most part, but the only problem is a user can not log in from that page, and if someone is already logged in it won't show their info.
I decided to try and use this hack to see if I could get it to work with my PHP scripts, but I'm still not having any luck. I put this code

<?php
chdir("/home/virtual/site72/fst/var/www/html/forum/");
require('./global.php');
?>

at the top of the PHP page and then this code where I wanted the box to appear.

<?php include ("/webwelcome.php"); ?>

Then when I try to go to the page it says

Fatal error: Failed opening required 'errors/configure_instructions.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php') in /home/virtual/site72/fst/var/www/html/gallery/errors/unconfigured.php on line 10

I thought maybe it was a problem since this script changed directories to the forum, so I used chdir right under the place I included the webwelcome that to switch the directory back to the folder the script was in, but I got the exact same error again.


I've got this hack to work fine on a test page done in PHP, but I can't get it to work on a PHP script page. Does anyone have any idea how I can make this work or perhaps another way I can display a users login information on another PHP script?