In my second post, 'this thread' is linked to the thread containing the global. Unfortunately the default link styles for this forum don't work too well with this background.
In the example above, page.cgi?p=member uses a template called member.html (you need to create this new template, easiest way is to load an existing template and save as a new name, then edit as required).
You can then append variables to the URL and the template parser will recognise them automatically e.g. page.cgi?p=member&member=Dave will allow you to use the variable <%member%> in your template.
So, you create the global as in the above link (e.g.member_links) and call it in your template by using <%member_links($member)%>.
In the example above, page.cgi?p=member uses a template called member.html (you need to create this new template, easiest way is to load an existing template and save as a new name, then edit as required).
You can then append variables to the URL and the template parser will recognise them automatically e.g. page.cgi?p=member&member=Dave will allow you to use the variable <%member%> in your template.
So, you create the global as in the above link (e.g.member_links) and call it in your template by using <%member_links($member)%>.