Is it possible to make the {$l_menu[0]} etc. tags in the custom header.php and footer.php files work? I have a page with a quite long header and I wouldn't want to have almost the same long code in both ./inc/header.php and in ./forum/template/main_header.html ..

Use $GLOBALS['l_menu'][0] etc.

Example (from the working site):

<?php include("include/head.php"); ?>

<table width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<tr><td style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align=center><span class=txtNr><b><?=$GLOBALS['l_menu'][0];?><?=$GLOBALS['l_menu'][7]?><? =$GLOBALS['l_menu'][3]?><?=$GLOBALS['l_menu'][2]?><?=$GLOBALS['l_menu' ][1]?><?=$GLOBALS['l_menu']
[5]?><?=$GLOBALS['l_sepr']?></b></span>
</td></tr></table>
<div align=center>

thank you very much!

How can I keep the existing look and feel of my website by using the header/footer in my php pages?

Currently the code in place produces a header abnd footer, but no menu (navigation bar).



<? include("/pathto.../templates/main_header.php") ?>

Content here

<? include("/pathto.../templates/main_footer.php") ?>

Everything displays fine but the menu is missing.

How can I fix this?

I think, you need to use {$GLOBALS['l_menu'][0]} for example instead of $l_menu[0] and so on for all menu items. I.e. use $GLOBALS array of variables instead of simple vars.

Actually, I used this, but not displaying menu. Displays everything else.

<?=$GLOBALS['l_menu'][0];?>

What else should I try?

Try

<?php echo $GLOBALS['l_menu'][0]; ?>

and for other items, too. [l_menu][0]; index is not displayed on the first page, but only on internal pages.

That still didn't work. I am able to pull the header and footer just fine, using include tags. But when I place the menu links as described above, they do not display.

Do I need to add anything to the pages so it knows what to look for concerning the Global menu?

So, are they simply not displayed, or the script gives some error? It should give some error or Notice, which you can see if your php.ini's error_reporting setting set to E_ALL.

Without noticing the error, we can not determine the problem.

what i did was just copied all the visual header portion and copied it onto a template i use for all my other pages. it's entirely seamless this way.