Using private profile field in conditionals

[makaiguy]

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

Forgive me, but I'm a rank newbie with databases and php (old QuickBasic guy...) so I have a couple of questions:

Would the code above take care of creating that field in the user record, or do I need to do something first to create the new field?

And when/how often would that code be executed by including it in the phpinclude template?

Another approach I thought of was to remove the private classification from field5, but put a conditional in the template that displays the profile, such that it would suppress printing to the screen unless the viewer was that user or an admin. Haven't taken a peek at the code yet to see what that would entail.