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PHP

Master Marketing
Master Marketing
1,200 Points
Posted by Master Marketing
Master Marketing
1,200 Points

Isn't there a way to do the Paypal button in PHP so visitors won't see the html and won't be able to manipulate it?

I find it very unsecure to know that people can actually change the details of my shop (in Randy Hoyt's How to make a Simple PHP Application). Is there any way to do it with PHP so visitors won't be able to make changes into my site without my consent?

1 Answer

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

HTML cannot be "hidden". For your browser to render a website it must know the HTML, and so that cannot be held secret. The advantage of php is that everything is run on the server-side and so the client/browser will never see any of the php - so what you can do is just to add "checks" with php once the client has submitted their forms or orders to ensure that nothing that nothing sensitive has been manipulated.