$foruminfo not available in phpinclude?

[Vinnie]

I have the following snippet in template 'phpinclude'

  if( basename($PHP_SELF)=="forumdisplay.php" and $foruminfo[cancontainthreads]==1 and $foruminfo[allowposting]==1 ) {
    $navhead_post="
<td width=50>
<a href=\"newthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newthread&forumid="
.$foruminfo[forumid]
."\">
<img src=\"{dcimages}/post.gif\" border=0><br>
<smallfont>Post!</smallfont></a></td>";
  } else {
    $navhead_post="";
  } 

It doesn't seem to be working, even though other similar scripts work fine. It never evaluates $foruminfo[cancontainthreads] equal to 1, even if I am on a page where the "New Thread" button is visible.

Is the $foruminfo variable not available at the time the phpinclude is procesed within forumdisplay.php?

[Freddie Bingham]

The phpinclude template is evaluated within global.php which occurs at the very beginning of all pages.

[Vinnie]

Workaround

Is there a workaround?

Can I assign a variable to some kind of eval() statement whose execution is deferred to the time of substitution, instead of when global.php is processed?

[Freddie Bingham]

You can place your variable to be set in the header template with two $$ (i.e. $$var) and then place your code that sets it in the forumdisplay.php file above the dooutput line it might work