Hide my HTML

Description

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Keep Your Website Code Private and Protected

Hide my HTML is a lightweight PHP script that shields the source code of your web pages. Instead of serving plain, easily copied markup to every visitor, it scrambles your HTML on the fly, so only a real web browser can decode and display the finished page. Visitors still see your site exactly as intended, while casual copying, quick scraping and direct viewing of your source become far more difficult.

It is a practical choice for developers, agencies and site owners who want an extra layer of privacy for demos, unfinished projects, licensed layouts and original page designs, without rebuilding their sites or learning a complex new system.

Key Features

• Encodes HTML output on the fly, so pages are protected automatically as they load
• Discourages fast copying and cribbing of your page content and markup
• Makes straightforward WYSIWYG-style editing of your code much harder
• Encodes local HTML to help prevent simple in-file searching
• Helps keep work-in-progress and unfinished sites out of search results
• Confuses casual viewers who open View Source to inspect your code
• Supports special characters, including accented characters such as ö, ü, ä, ß, Ö, Ü and Ä
• Very lightweight and easy to set up, even if you are new to PHP
• Encodes content changes automatically, so updated pages stay protected
• Works with WordPress through an included plugin, and with most JavaScript on a page
• Requires only PHP 4 or later and works in most server environments

How It Works

Setup is deliberately simple. Add the script include as the very first line of your PHP code, and that is it. From that point on, the HTML your page generates is encoded before it reaches the visitor, and the browser decodes it for normal display. You do not need to rewrite your templates or change how you build pages.

Important Things to Know

No protection method is completely bulletproof, and this script does not defend against dedicated debugging tools. Encoding important keywords can also affect search visibility, so it is best used where privacy matters more than ranking for that content. Always keep a backup of your original, unencoded HTML files, and note that there is currently no known decompiler for this encoding.

Who Is It For?

Hide my HTML suits developers protecting client work, creators shielding demo pages, and anyone who wants to make their markup less accessible to casual copiers, ad blockers that read page code, search engines and data miners. It offers a simple, on-the-fly way to add a meaningful layer of code privacy to PHP websites.