Question

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, I have a page with a progress bar that’s advancing based on the number of times a certain hashtag has been tweeted on Twitter. This could be generated something like this:

tweets = <?php echo $tweetsfile->total; ?>;
target = <?php echo $target; ?>;
$('#progressbar').css('width', tweets / (target/100) + '%');

Supposing that it’s undesirable for people to be able to look at the source code and see what the target number is. Is there a simple strategy for keeping this information from prying eyes?

Answer 1

Try just calculating the percentage in php:

progressPercent = <?php echo (100 * $tweetsfile->total / $target); ?>;
$('#progressbar').css('width', progressPercent + '%');