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Originally Posted by weinstoc

I'm new to VBulletin programming. I've been searching through what documentation I could find, but a lot of it is cryptic to me (probably because I don't understand the programming structure of VBulletin).

I would like to add a field to the forum database (say "X") and be able to access $foruminfo[X] in a conditional such (i.e., <if condition="$forum[X] == Something">
Do something
</if>

Can someone walk me through the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Chuck

You will have to alter the forum table with a mysql command

alter table forum add column column definition

the new field will be available in $foruminfo, which itself is set when you call global.php

Of course populating said field is another matter entirely.

I am not a big fan of modifying core vb tables. I always set up a second table in my own db which keys on forumid (or whatever key is appropriate), then store/fetch to that table as needed.