[sv1cec]

Mark,

since the author is not jumping in to explain this to us, may I ask you something. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Since bitvalue 8192 is already assigned to hasaccessmask, by vb, redefining this value to mean "Yes, I want to receive text messages" means that each user which had that value defined, now is set to receive text messages. Is that right? I would expect any hack to add at the bottom of that list, instead of using one of the existing bit values.

Right now, I have this hack installed and I am not sure, if the above change has created havoc in my user permissions or not. And for sure, I am not going to go back and re-give all the users any permissions, just because of this hack, there are other ways to check if the user has selected to receive text messages than this.

Can someone who understands how these things operate, jump in and clear the issue for us?

P.S. : Well, scrab that, I removed the bitvalue thing and reset the $_USEROPTIONS array to the state it was before this hack. I then created a new column in the user table, where the equivalent option is stored. In that way, at least, I do not risk creating havoc in my forums.