[Davey]

Well, providing you're gonna make the site yourself, all you need is to require global.php.
Copy global.php to the directory where your index page is, and edit the directories in global.php to get back to the forum directory (adding paths, etc.), then in your php index place:

PHP Code:

<?php
include("./global.php");
/* REST OF CODE HERE. */
?>
<!-- REST OF STUFF HERE -->

Dave.