hiding php data access code

[Anon]

Hi;

I am looking for a way to hide my php scripts that access mysql. I'm looking for something like COM Objects in MS or transaction server lingo. The reason being , I don't want my scripts taken by a spiders.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
thankx

[[deleted]]

You can't get a php script from a webserver. Only the output of the code. Spiders simply request URLs, so they can never get the PHP source code.
(well, unless your server goofs quite badly, but that is rare)

But still you should never ever have usernames or passwords hard-coded into your scripts. Always store them in an include file that is outside your documentroot.

[Anon]

But if people use online web hosting, that is problem. 'cause we have methods to get the PHP code and look database username and password. I hope someone can get me another ideas. :>

[Anon]

Not if you have a proper host.

[Anon]

Use includes! if a spider request it, nothing would go out (if you code only functions, of course).
Please remind:
Server which don't support php will sends a php-script in plain-text!

[[deleted]]

Ehm.. yeah ok right.

So what would be the use of having your PHP scripts on a webserver that doesn't understand PHP?

And how can you use includes without using PHP?

And your include files would have to be stored outside the html document root, otherwise reading the code you could see which files are included, and simply request them.

Spiders are nothing more than automatic browsers. There is nothing a spider can do that a browser can't do.

So, if your webserver understands PHP, it will never show the sourcecode of your scripts. That's the whole point of PHP, to put sourcecode inside the page without it being shown.