Accessing Database Value from a Template.

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I want to access a database value from a VB template. The template is shown below. I have a new field in the 'attachment' table, called 'external_source' by default this will be zero, but if it is a 1, I want to produce different HTML code.

<li>	<vb:if condition="$picture['hasthumbnail']">
	   <vb:if condition="$picture['external_source'] == 0">
	<a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}albumid={vb:raw albuminfo.albumid}&amp;attachmentid={vb:raw picture.attachmentid}"><img src="http://www.solent-renegades.co.uk/attachment.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}attachmentid={vb:raw picture.attachmentid}&amp;thumb=1" alt="{vb:raw picture.caption}" title="{vb:raw picture.caption} from {vb:raw albuminfo.title}" border="0" {vb:raw picture.dimensions}/></a>
<table width="120" height="60"><tr><td>{vb:raw picture.caption} from {vb:raw albuminfo.title}</td></tr></table>
	   <vb:else />
                  --action if we have an external source.
  	   </vb:if>

	<vb:else />
		<a class="picture" href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}albumid={vb:raw albuminfo.albumid}&amp;attachmentid={vb:raw picture.attachmentid}"><vb:if condition="$picture['caption_preview']">{vb:raw picture.caption_preview}<vb:else />{vb:rawphrase picture}</vb:if></a>
	</vb:if>
	<vb:if condition="$show['moderation']"><span class="shade">{vb:rawphrase picture_moderated}</span></vb:if>
</li>

Looking inside album.php I have modified the call to the database to include this field too.

$pictures = $db->query_read("
		SELECT
			a.attachmentid, a.userid, a.caption, a.dateline, a.state, a.filename, a.external_source,
			fd.filesize, IF(fd.thumbnail_filesize > 0, 1, 0) AS hasthumbnail, fd.thumbnail_dateline, fd.thumbnail_width, fd.thumbnail_height
			$hook_query_fields
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "attachment AS a
		INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "filedata AS fd ON (fd.filedataid = a.filedataid)
		$hook_query_joins
		WHERE
			a.contentid = $albuminfo[albumid]
				AND
			a.contenttypeid = " . intval($contenttypeid) . "
			" . ((!can_moderate(0, 'canmoderatepictures') AND $albuminfo['userid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) ? "AND a.state = 'visible'" : "") . "
			$hook_query_where
		ORDER BY a.dateline DESC
		LIMIT $start, $perpage
	");

So now $pictures contains the information from that database query.

Each individual pictures is fetched from
while ($picture = $db->fetch_array($pictures))

So in the template code I would expect pictures.external_source to contain the data from the database. Something isn't working right.

Is there some other process it goes through to pass data from album.php to the 'album_picturebit' template?