You can--you need to check the signature of the visiting client and determine whether it is a spider (for example, Google indexers are called "googlebot"s). This is in $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']. Here's a thread on the subject: http://news.php.net/php.general/217460 You can also use the browscap-related functionality to extract more information from the user-agent string, although this is not always 100% reliable: http://ca.php.net/get-browser Remember, however, that most search engines shun this practice and may drop your site from their indices if you adopt it. Marco On 7/17/05 10:55 AM, "jenny mathew" <jennymat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello group, > is it possible to make write a program in php ,so that only search bots can > see the output of that program.i mean to say that a program echoes a line at > the footer which only search bots can see,it will be invisible to general > visitors. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
