Suggestions for right click protect and ctrl c ????

Would like suggestions on what and how to implement a right click protect and ctrl c for images and content on Zen Cart please. The suggestions that Google brings up makes me cross-eyed and dizzy LOL!
I figured the Zen Gurus here would have a solution for our dilemma.

Thanks in advance for your help! :D

Frank Jones
911 Outfitters LLC
https://www.911outfittersllc.com

the best thing to do is to watermark your images. Right click prevention is frustrating to those who normally use right click for navigation purposes. Anyone determined to harvest images or content will easily find a way around right click prevention.

Right-Click protection is pointless on EVERY site that tries to use it. When my 10-year-old daughter wants to copy an image, she knows that all she has to do is press FN+PRT SC - or use the "grab" function. She has also learned to go into the page source and look for the <img src> tag and render the image outside of its called page.

Don't waste your time trying to invoke systems that just do not work. Rather watermark images.

Thanks for the feedback. I understand it's easy for a determined person.
Boss want's it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

My suggestion is to tell the boss that it's pointless. The ONLY WAY you can protect images is to watermark them. Image Handler has a mechanism to watermark MEDIUM and LARGE images automatically.

Other image tools (some commercial) have this capability too.

There is no point putting in a feature that essentially has no functional value or purpose.

do a google search for JavaScript no right click and a number of scripts will come up.

Put this script right after the <head> tag in your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/html_header.php file

And of course, this "protection" will only work if a user has javascript enabled, so turning js off in the browser defeats the protection.

Yes a persistant hacker can get to the source of any image, but this is mainly to stop people harvesting lots of images and product descriptions to fill up their own online stores. Ive had it in the past where Ive had to list say 200 new branded products, and its easy to find a competitors site and rip off their images and text. If I come across a site like that where I couldnt simply right click copy paste, id move on.

So yes this does help.

dgent:

Put this script right after the <head> tag in your includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/html_header.php file

<script language=JavaScript> var message="Function Disabled!"; function clickIE4(){ if (event.button==2){ alert(message); return false; } } function clickNS4(e){ if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){ if (e.which==2||e.which==3){ alert(message); return false; } } } if (document.layers){ document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); document.onmousedown=clickNS4; } else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){ document.onmousedown=clickIE4; } document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false") </script>

Works like a charm, thank you so much!

As long as he is signing my checks, he gets what he wants. Thanks for your help.

schoolboy:

My suggestion is to tell the boss that it's pointless. The ONLY WAY you can protect images is to watermark them. Image Handler has a mechanism to watermark MEDIUM and LARGE images automatically.

Other image tools (some commercial) have this capability too.

There is no point putting in a feature that essentially has no functional value or purpose.

I understand a determined person can get whatever they want, I appreciate the point.
Thanks to those of you who answered my question without a big debate on the subject LOL

You might ask your boss if he really wants to protect his images (in which case a watermark is necessary), or if he just wants to protect them from casual copying.

911Outfitters:

I understand a determined person can get whatever they want, I appreciate the point.
Thanks to those of you who answered my question without a big debate on the subject LOL

It's not so much a "debate" as to what is actually a BETTER OPTION for your boss.

Of course you have to be "tactful" when dealing with the boss, but you could gain a lot of credibility if you show him/her WHY the right-click option is pointless, AND THEN offer a solution that WILL actually address his principle concern (protecting the images).

You see... down the line ( 6 months to a year perhaps) he might visit a competitor's site and see his images being displayed.

Guess who will take the rap for that?

Sometimes, even bosses need to be "educated" and offered a technically superior option.

And you can "cover your own back" by doing what is technically best...

Still... if you see this perspective as argumentative, so be it. Frankly I have no real concern if your boss's pics get copied or not :D

As I said before, I understand the point. If we really wanted to protect them 100% we wouldn't post them!
Nothing is fool proof, even water marks.
This works fine for all but the determined.

Understood thanks amigo.

schoolboy:

It's not so much a "debate" as to what is actually a BETTER OPTION for your boss.

Of course you have to be "tactful" when dealing with the boss, but you could gain a lot of credibility if you show him/her WHY the right-click option is pointless, AND THEN offer a solution that WILL actually address his principle concern (protecting the images).

You see... down the line ( 6 months to a year perhaps) he might visit a competitor's site and see his images being displayed.

Guess who will take the rap for that?

Sometimes, even bosses need to be "educated" and offered a technically superior option.

And you can "cover your own back" by doing what is technically best...

Still... if you see this perspective as argumentative, so be it. Frankly I have no real concern if your boss's pics get copied or not :D

911Outfitters:

As I said before, I understand the point. If we really wanted to protect them 100% we wouldn't post them!
Nothing is fool proof, even water marks.
This works fine for all but the determined.

Very true, and the last time I looked, watermarking doesnt stop someone right clicking/copying/hyperlinking your image.

All it means is the image they use has your watermark on...

This is also quite a neat trick that we have used when sites use direct hyperlinking to images on our servers/sites:

This goes into a .htaccess file...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/shopatourplace.jpg [R,L]

The FOURTH line shows a JPG image called "shopatourplace.jpg (Shop at OUR place). The image is a plain jpg showing the URL to OUR SITE.

When an image thief deep-links to any images on our site, every image so linked shows the "shopatourplace.jpg" image instead of the intended image...

Their site carries scores of adverts for our site!

Nice!
Alas we are on a windows server :(

Thanks for the code works a treat on both my sites .. I have alternative needs for no right click ... They can copy the image if they want .I just don't want them to be able to access right click list :)