Need site stats in the header!

Making a beautiful sidebar that is causing all sorts of headaches. Due to the way the site is being structured, this sidebar needs to be in the header. But no stats like $totalthreads, $newpm[messages] will show up!

Is there a way around this?

http://www.nexusportal.net/index.php?s=

[Xenon]

those stats have to be parsed before the header is parsed in global.php

so wherever your code is, it's wrong if it's not before the header parsing line

[NexDog]

So how do I get around that? Can I change the place where the header is parsed in global.php or something?*

[Xenon]

as i said just put th stats code before the header parsing.

[NexDog]

I understand the concept but I can't figure out how that's possible if the variables are actually in the header.....

Throw me some breadcrumbs here....please.

[NexDog]

Just a few crumbs...

[Xenon]

put needed code over eval("\$header = .....");

no more crumbs are possible

[NexDog]

ahhh, gotcha...