Is there a better way to hide & store read only data for a JQuery/JavaScript app than putting it in PHP arrays?
<p>I am making a mostly client side JavaScript / JQuery app that processes data I store on the server. I do not want this data easily scrape-able by bots, so right now I am storing all of the read-only data inside PHP files that the app gets via JSON and parses on the client side. I decided to do this instead of a MySQL database because I will never need to update the data (and I assumed - perhaps incorrectly - that it would be much easier for the web server to spit out JSON than query a database).</p>

<p>I know this isn't 100% secure, but I thought it would be better than keeping the data in an easily readable javascript or json file.</p>

<p>Is there a better way I can store data on my server so it can only be read when the app needs it, or make it harder to scrape?</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>
