PHPInclude Variables in Formbit Templates

[Boeman]

Today at 08:59 PM Logician said this in Post #12
Why don't you post your code that fails (together with your template modification) so that we can all see which variables you are trying to parse and where exactly?

To make this as simple as possible, here are the contents of my external php file, test.php:

<?
echo "TEST TEST TEST<br><br>";
?>

Here is what I added to the PHPInclude Template:

ob_start();
require("../test.php");
$testing = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

At the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template, I simply added this at the top:

$testing

All this does is echo out TEST TEST TEST above the categories. The problem is that the $test variable does not display in any of the formbit templates when viewed on a web browser. According to Filburt, I have to do some extensive modification in one of the php files included with VBulletin just to get this one simple feature working.