where to call includes

[nickmay1]

I am new to vBulletin, so my apologies if this question has been answered many times before.

I want to grab a list of all forums from the database and splurge them as a menu of links on the right side of the page, to make navigation easier. Since it will be on pretty much EVERY page the user sees, I want to create a variable containing my content, then spit it out in the template.

Reading various posts on this board tells me how to use the VB database abstraction layer - the table to interrogate is pretty obvious - but - I am not clear on where I should "hook in" to vbulletin.

Is there a standard place to call a 3rd party include? Global.php seems to get called by everything - is that the place to do it?

Any help much appreciated,

Regards

Nick May