Adding/accessing a forum database field

[weinstoc]

I'm new to VBulletin programming. I've been searching through what documentation I could find, but a lot of it is cryptic to me (probably because I don't understand the programming structure of VBulletin).

I would like to add a field to the forum database (say "X") and be able to access $foruminfo[X] in a conditional such (i.e., <if condition="$forum[X] == Something">
Do something
</if>

Can someone walk me through the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Chuck