i did this on a unreleased theme to get the banner in the header
Code:
//open header
$tmpl_file = "themes/Under_Construction/headeropen.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
//put banners in header if enabled
if ($banners == 1) {
include("banners.php");
}
//close header
$tmpl_file = "themes/Under_Construction/headerclose.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$thefile."\";";
eval($thefile);
print $r_file;
then i just split header.html into headeropen.html and headerclose.html and deleted header.html