Plug-in help

[idnguy]

Hi,

I created a plug-in to rotate a couple of ads as so, and named the file http://myforum.com/ads.php.

<?

$r_i=rand(0,1);

if ($r_i == 0)
{
echo "ad 1";

}
else
{

echo "ad 2";
}


?>

I created the plug-in with the code:

ob_start();
 include('http://myforum/ads.php');
 $myads = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean();

But when I access the code in the navbar template using $myads, no html shows up.

Any idea why?

We're on 3.8.4