3
Have just quickly tried using the footer and header with some other PHP.
include("../mainfile.php");
include(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH."/header.php");
// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
phpinfo();
// Show just the module information.
// phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
include(XOOPS_ROOT_PATH."/footer.php");
?>
This produced the expected result (almost) in that I had my sites header, footer, left and right menus, all with the correct colour scheme and css styling.
the content was just the php info for my server.
This did work, it did change the colour of some of my text in the custom blocks, but if your OK with PHP you can probably figure out what cuased that and stop it from happening on your site.
Dave