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PHP to Javascript, array to array, object to object

Answer 1

+2 A:

I don't want people go fishing for the path's when do do a > view HTML source

What are you going to do with those image paths in your javascript? If the final goal is to use them as the source of an img tag then you could do absolutely nothing to hide them as tools such as Firebug will show directly all the HTTP requests that the browser performs, so it's not even necessary to look at the source of the HTML page to obtain the image paths.

If you intend to do something else with these paths (??) you could use a public/private key encryption algorithm. For example you generate a pair of private/public keys in javascript and you use ajax to send the public key to your server script. The script uses this public key to encrypt the image paths and returns them as JSON array to the client script which uses it's private key to decrypt them.

UPDATE:

Here's one example of sending the list of paths through AJAX:

<?php
    header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
    $images_arr = array('some/dir/001.jpg', 'some/dir/002.jpg', 'some/dir/003.jpg');
    echo json_encode($images_arr);
?>

and you obtain them in javascript:

$(function() {
    $.getJSON('/script.php', function(data) {
        for (var x = 0; x < length; x += 1) {
            var imageUrl = data[x];
            // do something with this image url
        }
    });
});

Darin Dimitrov 2010-02-28 09:20:35

I use these paths in a jQuery photo applicationI just don't want the average Joe to look in my source and see the .jpg paths in Javascript and than think: "hey, there they are"

FFish 2010-02-28 09:28:46

In this case obtain them from the server through an AJAX request.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-02-28 09:31:36

AJAX, ok can you just give me some keywords to start looking into this Darin? I am using jQuery btw.

FFish 2010-02-28 09:37:23

Darin Dimitrov 2010-02-28 09:58:01

I should note that FireBug shows content of AJAX responses.

vava 2010-02-28 10:00:59

super! thanks so much Darin

FFish 2010-02-28 10:04:04

@vava, the average `Joe` is not supposed to have FireBug installed :-)

Darin Dimitrov 2010-02-28 10:20:17

@Darin, average Joe do not know how to get HTML and find src elements of img tags either.

vava 2010-02-28 12:32:39

Answer 2

A:

I'm sorry to tell you but you have no choice. If you want JavaScript to use your array, you have to pass it out to client and that means power user will be able to see it. There is no way around.

You can encode it but it won't hold against JavaScript debugger.

If it is visible to JavaScript code, it is visible to user, period.

vava 2010-02-28 09:22:24

I am not interested in power users, just the average who looks at the source and see a .jpg extension

FFish 2010-02-28 09:30:31

@FFish, average guy will right-click on image and "copy link location". It won't save you either.

vava 2010-02-28 09:59:18

I disabled right click on the image with jQuery: $("#myImage").bind("contextmenu",function(e) { return false; });

FFish 2010-02-28 10:02:56

You just going to annoy whole lot of users and achieve nothing, I tell ya.

vava 2010-02-28 12:31:20

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