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Well, Tom, we're presuming he has a site where he wants some visitors to have access to paid content, and other visitors to see a little of what is available, just to get them hooked into paying for it. Joomla (or any other CMS) would be a good way to go, since a user can be assigned to a specified group, or alternatively some PHP solution with SQL. .htaccess is a great way to secure a site with a limited number of users, but how will you implement it practically for a couple of hundred users?
What happens when they sign up? You assign them a password? What happens when someone forgets their password? You have to manually create a new one, upload the whole new .htpasswd file, and let them know, manually, what the new password is.
Yes, .htaccess is easy to administer for maybe 10 people working in the same group, but for a pay to view site, I do not believe it's ideal, as the pure administrative size of it could take all spare time our friend has.
Teisco, I think you should ask some help in the PHP / ASP forums, depending on what you have access to on your hosting account. Securing a pay per view site in HTML is fairly impossible, unless you're up to the task of administering it all yourself, manually.
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