PHP - Some Questions About Site Crawling.

Hello,

I had made a website (PHP) for a music company  few years back. They basically sell songs from their site. Now they've faced a problem. Their site has been crawled by abmp3.com and they not only let user download songs from our site but also give a full path of a song to download.

I wonder how this happened and how to stop them from crawling our site. And its likely some other site doing same too. So please anybody help me how to overcome this problem, may be some PHP code can do this??.

Thanks
watsmyname

I'm using cURL to crawl and scrape data from a website. This website contains tables with rows of data. When I send a cURL POST for the underlying data at a specific row(A), it will return the expected data. But when I move to the second row(B), the data returns blank or specifically, a tons of spaces (or &#nbsp's.) When I access the cURL's POST location by browser, I can see (B)'s data. The only difference in the 2 POST's are location ID's for the data. I don't think it's a problem with JavaScript as I can successfully return data from row (A) as I mentioned.

I have set up a site for a local orchestra. I have a simple mysql db from which 'News' items are pulled using php.

I have set up the following pages:
1. view_news.php
2. insert_news_item.php
3. delete_news_item.php
4. edit_news_item.php

All pages are working fine.

Now, rather than continually having to do news updates for the orchestra myself, I want to give a person on the orchestra committee access to the above pages so that he/she can do news updates for the orchestra, as required.

What is the best way of proceeding from here? I thought about creating a password protected directory and putting pages 2, 3 and 4 above into that directory and then giving the committee member the protected directory password. Is that the way to go?

What is the conventional way of doing this sort of thing?

Two things to note: I'm new to php and the job is non-paying. I've set up the site as the willing parent of kids in the orchestra.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

I have several "sites" located in my html directory, and each has a "general" access point and an "administrator" access point:

/var/www/html/site1/index.php
/var/www/html/site1/administrator/index.php
/var/www/html/site2/index.php
/var/www/html/site2/administrator/index.php
/var/www/html/site3/index.php
/var/www/html/site3/administrator/index.php

All sites are similar except that data will be specific to site1, site2, or site3, etc.   Users who log onto /var/www/html/siteX/index.php are totally unrelated to those who logon to /var/www/html/siteX/administrator/index.php, will have different logon credentials, are stored in different DB tables, and each should have their own session.  If a user logs off of either the general or administrator site, it should not effect the other site even if they were previously logged on to both on the same PC (and of course not effect other sites). When a user logs off, I would like to destroy their previous cookie and associated session.  Users for either will only use https.  I am using Apache to rewrite https://www.mysite.com/ to https://mysite.com/.  While I named the administrator site "administrator" above, the administrator user has the ability to change the directory name.   I am thinking I need to use session_set_cookie_params to specify where I wish the session cookie to be stored since /var/www/html/siteX/administrator/index.php is a sub-directory to /var/www/html/siteX/index.php, but am not really sure.  Sorry for the cryptic post, but I am not very well versed in this subject. How would you recommend setting up cookies/sessions for this scenario?  Thank you

now i use this code to show where the visitors came from to my site.

<?php
$referer=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
echo $referer;
?>

now, i want to show the  5 latest vistors referer's site url on my site ?