Adding a new field to the forum table

[amykhar]

I'm tearing my hair out on this one. I've got to be missing something.

I am adding a text field to the forum table. And, I need to have it editable in the admincp.

In the past, I would simply add the field to the database and then put in the code setting up the display of the field and the variable names. It would mirror the code for the forum description, which looks like this:

print_textarea_row($vbphrase['description'], 'forum[description]', $forum['description']);

So, my new text field would have a new column in the database called newfield (or whatever) and the code would look like:

print_textarea_row($vbphrase['newfield'], 'forum[newfield]', $forum['newfield']);

But, on my test site, it keeps telling me that newfield isn't a valid bitfield. Description, Link and other similar database fields are also not bitfields. They are not in the xml file.

So, what in heck am I missing? I've been plowing through the code to see if the forum description or link field are instantiated in any other file, and I'm not seeing anything.

Amy