$forumcache question

[Slapyo]

i'm trying to get the total posts and threads to display on a non-vb page. i asked about that in this thread.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=77797

i was told to check out the bottom of index.php to see how it is retrieved for the forums. i looked, and used that code. however, it doesn't work. i always ended up with 0 for both. i have looked to make sure that i wasn't missing a file that should have been included.

how come $forumcache contains threadcount and replycount when it is used in index.php and when i do print_r($forumcache); threadcount and replycount are missing from the information? there is all the other information, just not those 2...which happens to be the 2 i need.

any ideas on why this is happening?

i've searched both vB.com and vB.org but haven't found anything really relevant to this particular question.