I need some help with using vb templates in my hack

I was wondering how I could use a vb template called quotereply_quotes instead of an external .txt file for the following code:

$quotefilepath = "quotes.txt";

function randomline($filename) {
 $file = file($filename);
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
  while ($randomquote == "") {
   $randomquote = ereg_replace("\n","",$file[rand(0,count($file))]);
  }
  return $randomquote;
}  

$quote = randomline("$quotefilepath");

I had to use [ code ] and not [ php ] because [ php ] stripped my code's slashes.

you can't put codes in a template. all php codes have to go in php files.

I know that, that's not what I'm asking, the code goes in newreply.php.

My question is how do I get my data from a template instead of an external ascii file (.txt file)?

PHP Code:

require("global.php");
eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('templatename')."\");");