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I have a DataTables table that loads data from

$table.dataTable({
    ajax: 'path/to/getData.php',
});

getData.php makes some database calls and returns json_encode() of the output array and DataTables is able to parse it just fine.

However if someone was to go to http://mywebsite.com/path/to/getData.php, they would be able to see all of the raw JSON data and potentially scrape it.

Is there a way to prevent people from accessing getData.php unless it is called by dataTables?

I'm fairly certain this will have to be a modification to the PHP code since anyone could potentially see my workaround via Javascript.

CodePudding user response：

I ended up using $_SESSION variables.

At the start of the page that contains the table, I set $_SESSION['secure'] = true;

In my getData.php file, I have:

if($_SESSION['secure']) {
    echo json_encode($output);
    $_SESSION['secure'] = false;
}

To reset the secure session variable.