Ok I have this idea someone please point me in the right direction if you can.

It's a site where you can post a story or comment real quick, and not have to be registered to do so. Kind of like how craigs list, Olx.com, and Kijiji.com work. You can post an ad without signing up. It's a random post.

I'm keeping a membership database for ppl that are regulars and want to be known.

Do you know how Craigs list, Olx, and Kijiji have this ability?

Originally Posted by SylviaCFT

Do you know how Craigs list, Olx, and Kijiji have this ability?

Software code. They do the same thing when someone who isn't logged in wants to post that they do when someone is logged in and wants to post.

Yup - its all code based. You can use your code of choice, PHP, JSP, ASP, etc. If you have a membership database, I'm assuming you have some code that lets people sign up and store their information. There are two ways you can set up your database tables
1) a table that keep track of all member only posts & a separate table that keeps track of anonymous posts. Write all data into those tables based on whether the user is logged in or not - a simple session variable can determine that, i.e. set a session variable on login
2) write all data to the same table and make sure you have indexed username field so you can easily find posts registered members have posted.

Ultimately, it is all code based. You just need to spec out how you want it to work and have it developed.

Simple PHP script. Make sure that you have a captcha