Forum Forum Block/Sidebar PHP Concerns
 

There have been times when I write a custom php block/sidebar and it shows up above the header.

In addition, I also have experienced that I created a a php script that works in a stand alone .php file, but when applied to the sidebar/block, I get errors on random lines that can't be fixed....

Is this common when it comes to custom PHP on the sidebar/blocks?

Currently I'm trying to create a custom sidebar that pulls a random youtube video from a text file on the server and can't get it to work on the forum...