Add piece of custom code to index

[Kara_Mel]

I have a piece of self-written PHP code, which echo in form of HTML table I would like to display somewhere at the top of all forum-related pages. E.g. if talk about this default forum schema - somewhere near the "Hello Username". However I have never encountered SMF before, so have no full idea where to add something like require('custom_code.php');. So, I would like to know in which file(s) should be included a reference to my code.

[Arantor]

You'd normally add in the index.template.php file for the theme you're using.

[Kara_Mel]

So, if I add require('custom_code.php'); at the end of the section with greetings  ($context['user']['is_logged']) {} - it should work and forum won't go down?

[Arantor]

Well... assuming you correctly add it to the PHP of the page, and wrap it inside the if statement correctly (if that's what you want), it should be fine.

This also assumes your custom code doesn't try to do anything funky and won't otherwise break itself.

[Kara_Mel]

Thanks for the answer!

[Doug Heffernan]

So, if I add require('custom_code.php'); at the end of the section with greetings  ($context['user']['is_logged']) {} - it should work and forum won't go down?

As mentioned above, if it is done properly then there will be no errors in the forum. However, just to be sure make first a backup of the file that you will edit. Or better yet, try it first in a test/dev forum till you get it right and then apply the changes at your live forum.