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[imported_silkroad]

Hey Jedi,

I hear what you are saying; but I see it differently.

Basically, the way I see it, it is just a generic vB issue that is so common it should be in a FAQ.

For example, if I have a routine in any programming language (A), and that routine calls another routine (B) and I want to call (B) from (C), is is pretty straight forward and a basic part of coding.

So, in vB you have template (A) and template (A) calls template (B); and we want template (C) to call (B), what are the steps to do it?

At the right level of abstraction, it does not matter if we say it is $similarthreads or $showthread or $poll or $navbar or $header or $whatever. The basic idea is that we have a function and it works in one tempate and we want to call it from another one.

I don't really understand why folks here can't explain it.

(1) Go here, look for this and that;

(2) Then, take this and add that.

(3) Etc.

After all, I find this problem every day, I want to add a template to another part of the code and each time I ask this question I never get a straight forward programming answer; and the answer does not lie in the docs, cause I know where the docs are and how to search them.

If it was in C, it would be so easy; because the first few chapters of the documentation explains this simple concept and gives simple examples!!