Forum options bitfield help

[jwocky]

I am just not understanding the concept of bitfields too well

Was hoping someone could help me with a simple task. I have a forum options table for a forum as '97989'. Is there an easy way to determine if "Forum is Open" is set to Yes or No via PHP ?

Thank you!

[kh99]

If you had your options in the variable $options, you could use this:

if ($options & $vbulletin->bf_misc_forumoptions['allowposting'])
{
   // Forum Open
}
else
{
   // Forum closed
}

That's assuming you have $vbulletin available. If not, the value is actually 2, so you could use if ($options & 2) instead.

[jwocky]

Originally Posted by kh99

If you had your options in the variable $options, you could use this:

if ($options & $vbulletin->bf_misc_forumoptions['allowposting'])
{
   // Forum Open
}
else
{
   // Forum closed
}

That's assuming you have $vbulletin available. If not, the value is actually 2, so you could use if ($options & 2) instead.

That worked perfectly! Thank you so much