I'm currently a student / internet bum, and I want to move up to being a professional internet bum (web developer) full-time rather than just part-time.

No offense, but don't bother. It's always possible to view the page's source, whether by using a packet sniffer or by simply using a menu, and browsers like Firefox won't let you prevent them from using the **** menu. If you don't want something horribly copied and ripped, don't release it on the ...

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Simple method would be to do a SELECT DISTINCT userid FROM posts WHERE thread_id = thread_id (replace all table / column names and values with appropriate ones) and then comparing it against the current user ID. If the current user's ID is not present, refuse to display the information.

You've got my vote.

Alrighty, this seems like an interesting one. I love bragging about my absolutely leet server.

100mhz Pentium Celeron
96MB of RAM
no-name motherboard
3 Realtek Ethernet cards

Again: 100mhz.

My main computer is an AMD Athlon 2100+ with 512MB of no-name RAM and some old ASUS motherboard. It's 5 ...

I rolled my own solution. PHP5 is absolutely awesome, and I wrote a database class that basically eliminates the need for using raw SQL.