[Jenta]

Here's what I am trying:

My site structure is as follows
portal area
portal area/forums/
portal area/forums/standard vb subfolders

Now I want to make a subfolder for custom scripts to keep things a bit more tidy.
It's either going to be...
portal area/customscripts/
or
portal area/forums/customscripts

The reason I want to call global is so that you have to be logged in to call the custom scripts.

I have this which works fine in portal area/forums/ ...

PHP Code:

<?php
    error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); // i guess i need this?
    define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); // i guess i need this?
    define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'helloworld.php'); // i guess i need this? or is this only important if you plan on using on whos online?
    
    require_once('./global.php'); // need global.php to check permissions...your example used include_once...which one is more appropiate?

    if ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 1) // permission check!
    {
        print_no_permission();
    }
    
    // if you guess past this point, hello world!
    
    print("Hello World") 
?>

Anyways off to keep trying. My mind is mush from struggling with this the last day or 2. Havent quite understood how to implement your instructions yet.

thank a bunch for your help!