Protecting the MENU data

Poster: gamescrew
Dated: Tuesday April 11 2006 - 14:31:45 BST

Some people call me paranoid, but that is just because they conspire against me.

Taken this as a fact I want to protect my Milonic menu data, which has cost me a lot of sweat, blood and tears to master, against those evil copycats that are just waiting for me to put my pages on the web.

The menu is used in a PHP file. I have tried to scramble the source by compressing it. After saving the page from a browser and opening the saved html page with an editor it’s no trick to retrieve the menu structure. So that doesn’t prove to be an option.

My question is both as simple as simple:

Is it possible to make the data.JS/PHP non-visible for the browsing web user?

Poster: Migru
Dated: Tuesday April 11 2006 - 14:38:01 BST

Don´t think so.
for the inexperienced user, the js - references : sample:
<script src="yourfile.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
will be something like "hidden" code.

But - as you know - in the web there is nothing what you can really hide - because you want the user to load down your files into his browser to visualize your web pages. If you don´t want that, keep them closed and hidden and don´t publish anything. Its the nature of the web that there is access to everything (If you don´t have to log in). To make it as difficult as possible to "defend your copyright", make relevant notes, controll the users by log-in procedures etc., but you will know, that there are even tools, enabling the download of complete web sites!

Michael

make it unreadable

Poster: gamescrew
Dated: Tuesday April 11 2006 - 19:41:44 BST

Thanks Migru for your post.

Unfortunately I more or less expected this answer.

The purpose though is not to hide the code, which is nearly impossible as you remarked correctly, but to discourage inexperienced users from re-using my menu source / data.

Thus I more or less am searching for sensible way to obfuscate the source so that it is not human readable for the common user with limited time but still presentable in browsers.

I just can’t imagine that this issue has not been addresses by Milonic-menu customers.

Poster: Migru
Dated: Thursday April 13 2006 - 17:18:57 BST

Hi

forgot this:

using it does not encrypt your code, but it is a tool to make it difficult.....
please read this:
http://www.milonic.com/jscompactor.php

Michael