Hello,

Is there any way to disable right click on webpages and selection of text using PHP?

I know it can be done using Javascript. But i am looking for PHP based method.

You won't find any.

PHP runs at the page generation time. It's a server side language.
What happens in the browser is nothing PHP can influence. That's why all those techniques you saw were in javascript, as it runs browser side.
And beside, they are pretty useless, as any one hitting ctrl+u can view the source of the page anyway.

The only way you can prevent peoples getting your images and such, is to embed all of this into a flash control or a java applet.
As long as they are in an html page, people can fetch them.

If you are trying to disable right click for an image, people can just take a screen shot and get your image, and if people wants your text bad enough they will just sit their and copy it, so their is really no way of protecting your material if someone else wants it bad enough.

Rule of thumb

If you want to keep your content private and secure don't publish it online!

This may work.
HTML Code:
<div unselectable="on">this text will NOT be selectable</div>

That div code will not stop text from being selected.

Originally Posted by Knight13

That div code will not stop text from being selected.

Actually ...


... On Internet Exploder it would.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

But you could still select it in the source code, evan in IE I presume.

Yes, it only makes the rendered element "non-selectable"

I tried that code on IE 7 and i can highlight and copy the text.

Convert it into VALID CODE and it does.
http://www.modtalk.co.uk/_site/code/.../unselectable/

<span>s are inline element and cannot contain block elements

<shocked>
Not like MS to demonstrate using invald HTML code </shocked>

Originally Posted by freezea

This may work.
HTML Code:
<div unselectable="on">this text will NOT be selectable</div>

Thanks , i was unaware about this.

Originally Posted by frih

Thanks , i was unaware about this.

It may just be worthwhile reading the REST or the thread as well!!

If overall visitor experience means anything to you, I'd scrap the idea.

Your site copy is there to share with your visitors, no?

If it's really so tremendously compelling that you expect heaps of people to copy it, I'd probably take the "unselectable" bit in an entirely different direction and include a "print this page" option instead.

Site visitors are guests....be a good/generous host or stop inviting them

Does your 'Disable Select Text' function cover off Ctrl + A ?