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Thanks deathemperor. That's kinda what I was thinking, but then I considered that it would be easier for me to tell someone to edit/save/ftp it up and overwrite the existing one than to walk them through the admincp.

That way, someone else can manage the data that the array uses without mucking around in the acp. The people who need to be able to update it don't know anything about the vb system and don't need to. That's mainly why I was considering it. If it were always going to be me adding items, then you're right; it's six in one half a dozen in the other.

And I want it as a plugin so that when I update vb, I don't have to reinstall it.

Edit:I opted to go with using the include option for several reasons... You can change the content (even adding more arrays and variables to be used in other templates) without even logging in and because you can put the file anywhere you want even outside of your public_html dir if security is of concern. I can make a dir and give only the officers who need it ftp access to that dir (and only that dir) then point to it in the plugin and not have to think about it again.

This is what I've got.

I'm still figuring all of this out. I welcome constructive critcism if I've gone wrong in my logic somewhere.

oh this is too cool! The same plugin code except use the postbit_display_start hook and I can use my variable in users signatures!

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