Accessing the $forum array

[AlexOnFire]

Thanks for your reply Marco, much appreciated.

I've realised that I had to set my subforums depth setting to 1 in order for $forum[subforums] to contain anything. Now that I can see that, I just need to be able to retrieve an integer for the 'count' of subforums rather than the insertable 'summary' of them.

<?php var_dump($forum) ?> isn't giving me any sort of result in the forumbit_level2_nopost template - is there another way I should be using it?

edit: Just realised I can't run php from inside templates, looking more into plugins now.

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This seems to be getting too complicated, fast - all I want to do is get the number of subforums in a category on forumbit_level2_nopost, just like I can do for threadcount or replycount - surely this variable exists already and I don't have to create a plugin with hooks in a template (while not knowing which template I should be hooking) ?