Making a page part of your forums

[anuj]

I know the title is stated horribly.

Ok, here is the deal. I've written several different (lol, different) shoutboxes before, and now I'm trying to incorporate one into my vB.

My basic questions are:

1) Is there any specific code that defines a page as part of the vbulletin?

2) What is the code necessary in my shoutbox.php to call a specific template?

3) Can I place this shoutbox OUTSIDE of my forums directory? Or would it be better suited to keep it IN the forums directory?

If you've answered these questions before, I'm sorry. I've looked at vbulletin.com, yaxay, vbulletintemplates.com and some others, but I couldn't find any good answers.

Thanks.