Didn't think the absence of the else would effect anything.

To be honest, in general, it doesn't cause too much of a problem. It's just that Opera does tend to punish one for any minor mistakes. The '<pun_guest_message>' would have been left in the page source when the page was created and a user was logged in. It technically became a start tag with no closing tag.

The reason I have an overly keen eye for these things is that I run all of my code in XHTML1.1 mode, which is served as XML rather than HTML. Hence, anything like that will just prevent the page rendering completely in XML compliant browsers. As you can probably guess, I have to be rather paranoid about making sure every piece of output is perfect. Even something as minor as a missing double quote will prevent the page from rendering.

<?php
    
    $tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
    $tpl_main = str_replace('<pun_guest_message>', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
    ob_end_clean();
}

to:

<?php
    
    $tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
    $tpl_main = str_replace('<pun_guest_message>', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
    ob_end_clean();
}
else
{
    $tpl_main = str_replace('<pun_guest_message>', '', $tpl_main);
}

The stylesheet is at http://www.ottens.co.uk/lounge/style/Gatehouse.css

Edit: Scrub that. Managed to see it in the screenshot. Enable the guest message again if you could.

<div class="block">
    <h2><span>Guest Announcement</span></h2>
    <div class="box">
        <div class="inbox">
            <div>Message here.</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>

Opera can be a right pain in the arse for layout issues.

Looks like this:

How come?

(I've temporarily removed the guest message so that my "Opera" members can see everything all right.)

// START SUBST - <pun_guest_message>
if ($pun_user['g_id'] == PUN_GUEST)
{
    ob_start();

?>
<div class="block">
    <h2><span>Guest Announcement</span></h2>
    <div class="box">
        <div class="inbox">
            <div>Message here.</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<?php
    
    $tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
    $tpl_main = str_replace('<pun_guest_message>', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
    ob_end_clean();
}
// END SUBST - <pun_guest_message>

Then, in include/template/main.tpl add:

<pun_guest_message>

Where you want it to show up.

I've done some searching but I don't believe this has come up before.  What I'd like to do is place a message atop my forums that's visible only to guests.

I've tried copying the footer.php file, called it welcome.php, and inserted that into the template using <pun_welcome>. That works, it shows two footers, but when I place it above <pun_main> it doesn't show up anymore. I'm probably going to have to change some things in the new welcome.php file but I'm not quite that dexterous yet. Any suggestions?