Embedding Image Into PHP?

[XcapeX]

So you can go to websites and try to select an image..but you can't. How to do this with php? I don't want my image clickable.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

You do this in CSS. PHP is a server side language, it doesn't parse images/styles. And anybody can get the image URL through Firebug or something similar. The only site that I haven't been able to get an image URL for is eBay.

 

[XcapeX]

Oh so ultimately it doesn't really matter?

 

[JamesD31]

No, it doesn't. Your images can be stolen all the time. Also, CSS doesn't really stop image steals, never even heard of that ever being able to. There are ways to not hot-link files. I would search more on that, this does probably require PHP in some cases, I don't really bother with that. But really search for hot-linking and stuff.

 

[Damien]

If you use php with mysql you will be able to store the images in a mysql database and have them display using php 🙂

 

[JamesD31]

Yeah, though he wants them to not be able to be "stolen." So he can either get rid of the Right click function via JS and than do no hot-linking.

 

[Damien]

hmmm, but the right click JS is easy to get round :S, I'll have a look see what I can find out 🙂

 

[David]

You could use CSS and then find a way to protect your css file, or directory. Other than that, its impossible. There are hundreds of ways to obtain your site's images.

Also, why don't you want them clickable? I mean, you would either have unique images which could be used somewhere else (like a logo), or a pretty general image which could be found anywhere.

 

[Damien]

Hi,

This should help you 😉

http://css-tricks.com/techniques-for-fi ... age-theft/

Cheers!

 

[Antarctic]

Why not just put a watermark?

 

[Damien]

Why not just put a watermark?

While that is practical it does not look very nice on general website images, hmmmm just going to find more helpful links.