Need some help with a hack

I am attempting to make a "Welcome Back, $username - Click Here For New Posts" hack to put on my main page. I created a file called welcome.php in the forums directory, then I was doing an include of the file on my main page. In theory, everything should have worked, but it didn't. Here is the code I have:

<?php

        include("admin/config.php");
        include("global.php");

        $db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
        mysql_select_db($dbname);


// if user is know, then welcome
  if ($bbusername!="") {
    $username=$bbusername;
    eval("\$welcometext = \"".gettemplate("welcometext")."\";");
    eval("\$logincode = \"".gettemplate("logoutcode")."\";");
    eval("\$newposts = \"".gettemplate("newposts")."\";");

  } else {
    eval("\$newposts = \"".gettemplate("todayposts")."\";");
    eval("\$logincode = \"".gettemplate("logincode")."\";");
  }

  if (isset($categoryid)!=0 and $categoryid!=0) {
    verifyid("category",$categoryid);
    $selcategoryid=$categoryid;
    $categoriesonly=1;
  }

}

?>

As you can see, basically I just ripped the portion of code out of the vB index.php file. I know php like I know how to speak Hindi. Well, maybe a little better than that . I'm sure (If what I am trying to do is even possible in the first place) that it is a syntax error on my part.

Anybody have any advice? Or, has anyone already made a hack for this and have had it work successfully?

Thanks all!

{Edited by John to Put in code tags}

[Edited by John on 05-14-2000 at 09:34 PM]

Looks to me like you have one too many brackets at the end of the code.. Try eliminating the last bracket.. }

Thanks, but that needs to be there; I used the quote feature instead of the code feature, and apparently it took out some of the spaces.