[mike095]

We've included a php file in vb 3.0.1 using the following in the phpinclude_start template:

ob_start();
include_once('path//_inc_myfile.php');
$included_file = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

In the postbit template, we want to pass a topic-based Advertisement value to the script. I know that we can view the forum id # using $forum[forumid]

My question is how can we pass a value to the php script?

For example, if we ad a column in the forum table called 'ads', how can we pass $forum[ads] to the php script?

(we can't just show $forum[ads] directly on the page, because the script has to process the $forum[ads] value and get the actual ad from a 3rd party - based on the value we pass.)