Adding a usercp option? (Not bitfield)
 

I need to add several options under UserCP's "editoptions" page.

These will be simple checkboxes that enable/disable features of our site.
I looked at bitfields...but from what I understand, those are only for permissions?

I know how to add them to the template, i just don't know how to handle the database portion...so that those checkboxes get added to $bbuserinfo[].

Use User Profile Fields. You can read about those in the manual.

I guess that will work. Thanks.

I am pretty sure that when the user information is grabbed, the usertextfields are grabbed also. I have used these in several places on my site successfully.

Not on all pages.
showgroups page doesn't grab anything other than the location field.

There is a distinction here that needs to be made. Are you trying to get the user profile field of someone who is viewing the page or a page that is about someone (like a profile page or a post is about someone else)? If it is about the viewer, that information is available on every page.

The one that is viewing the page.
One of the things I'm trying to do with this, is to allow each user to enable/disable a certain feature from their user CP and then based on their preference, show/hide that feature throughout the board.

Basically, add a "Do you this feature enabled?" Yes/No
Then be able to access that from $bbuserinfo['feature1']

If it's the user viewing the forum, then you should be able to do it with a User Profile Field and then use $bbuserinfo['fieldx'] in your templates.