Help to include CI output (menu) on another non-CI webpage

[eluser]Chris Papaioannou[/eluser]
Thanks for your post CroNiX. The reason I can't (or at least can't see a straight forward way of doing so) generate the HTML and then include as a file from IPB is that the menu view has a bit of logic/PHP to put user specific links in (to their profile for example).

The data to make up the rest of the menu is cached from the database to reduce load but as for the entire menu, I can't simply cache a file copy and include it elsewhere

Second suggestion has not been done for those exact reasons, don't want to duplicate code anywhere and I'm sure there might be other items in future which I'd want CI to generate and then include in a forum sidebar etc, so I'm hoping to find a way around the issue rather than avoid tackling it if that makes sense.