How to extend controller to not loose the custom code after update

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I am struggling at putting my custom code in one of the frontend controllers page.php and not loosing it after update. In WordPress we are using child themes for this purpose, so I am talking about the equivalent in vBulletin. The code that I am placing in the index method of page.php

/*CUSTOM SCRIPT*/
        ob_start();
        include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/core/packages/tag_categories/widget.php');
        $cat_list = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
        //advertise module
        ob_start();
        include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/core/packages/advertise/widget.php");
        $advertise = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
        $advertise = explode("&&&&&", $advertise);
        $templater->registerGlobal('categories', $cat_list);
        $templater->registerGlobal('advertise', $advertise[0]);
        $templater->registerGlobal('more_advertise', $advertise[1]);
        $templater->registerGlobal('more', $advertise[2]);
        $templater->registerGlobal('learn_more', $advertise[3]);
        /*CUSTOM SCRIPT*/

After updating the version, the code is lost.

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