I'm trying to integrate GForum and Community into my site.

I want to use several templates which are the same in each application. Rather than copying them so that each file is replicated in each application, I'd like one version of the file so that any updates are immediate in each application.

The way I'm thinking about doing this is making a new common_template directory and changing the .tplinfo file to point to this directory.

How can I link to this directory from each of the applications so that I can modify the templates in any application? Could I do this with symlinks?

Is this the best way to do this? Any comments?