John Wrote: fdigl, the selfish part of your advice was that you offered him a link to an otherwise outdated website that has far better alternatives with no direction and basically saying to learn this and leave the site alone. This is a request thread, and he has every right to request code or a plugin.
True, you're right in the sense that I took the lazy way and gave him the generic answer. While your points are both valid and reasonable, I still stand in the stance that he would still be better off learning how to code properly. Not only would it be better in the long run, but it's a beneficial skill that could and probably would serve him well. Although, I don't see how my response was selfish. I could easily tell him to piss off, but instead I'd at least try to point him in some form of direction.