Statcounter Tracking / Plugin

[kwblue]

Hello,

I have been trying to find an answer to this here and on the .com site, but cannot seem to find it. Everyone wants the statcounter code in the templates, but I would like to create a plugin for it. (Why? Because I have multiple templates and do not want to have to put it in all the footers)

With that said.. How can I put <script> tags in a plugin? The counter doesn't appear to be tracking when it is put in there 'as is'.

The code is this:

<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var sc_project=2089680; 
var sc_invisible=1; 
var sc_security="87f60d6a"; 
</script>

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script><noscript><div
class="statcounter"><a title="vBulletin analytics"
class="statcounter"
href="http://www.statcounter.com/vbulletin/"><img
class="statcounter"
src="http://c.statcounter.com/2089680/0/87f60d6a/1/"
alt="vBulletin analytics" /></a></div></noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

I also tried:

$output = '{code above}';

But didn't notice any tracking. Any help would be much appreciated!