[mrkhm]

thanks for your response Ted S, before i saw yours, i managed to get this line of code to work:

if ($show['member'] AND is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 2) AND !$lvgbot AND $vbulletin->options['lgvon'])

as supposed to

is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 2)

it's just every time they log out, vbulletin clears the cookies, but i take point that this was designed for guest views and not exactly for the way i am trying to modify it into sort of pay-per-views

but thank you all the same...