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February 17, 2011 6:29pm
Subscribe [1]#1 / Feb 17, 2011 6:29pm
I’m converting some forms over from Freeform to an external database service. I don’t have control over the processing script. Is there any way PHP or EE can be used to obfuscate hidden form fields from someone looking at the source code, and still have the form submit ok? Everything I’ve tried still places the data in the clear.
#2 / Feb 18, 2011 4:16am
About the only way I can think of is to have PHP (or MySQL) encrypt the content of these fields. They’d still show up in the hidden fields but be indecipherable.
#3 / Feb 18, 2011 8:54am
A PHP-only solution would be great, BUT, I don’t understand how the data gets decrypted before the form processing script gets it.
#4 / Feb 18, 2011 9:30am
Depending on where it comes from and the rest of the setup I’m suggesting it’s not decrypted at that point, at all, but stored in the database in encrypted form. You can decrypt it upon retrieval or at some later point. There are MySQL functions to do that, too.